ernest (Ellen)

“The world is greater than that -- I smile
and I think of my hilarity as a covey
in flight from a house collapsing.
Lose yourself if you wish to find yourself; desire
so as not to have.”
― Mario Luzi, In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.

“I recognize the desolate country
of our birth without a beginning,
of our death without an end.”
― Mario Luzi, In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.

“Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile" (Life is short, [the] craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult)”
― Hippocrates

“a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life”
― G.H. Hardy