Peter

“July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.
It is beautiful that they have to disappear.
It's like the time you said I love you madly.
That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.”
― Frederick Seidel

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni: A Novel

“I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts”
― Leonard Cohen