Andare, Partire, Tornare ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My life in verse I've been sitting on this for a while because I wanted to spend a little time on it. I had seen it before, but mechiach reminded me of it. Some of the quotes may be slightly off as I was doing them from memory. 1.Who are you? �But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing 2.What do you look like? �It was her scars that made her beautiful.�Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History 3.What's your secret? �I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain�and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.� --Robert Frost 4.What do you want to be? �Be happy, those who may for what�s to come is still unsure.� --Lorenzo De Medici5.What can you do? �Reading means being ready to catch a voice that makes itself heard when you least expect it, a voice that comes from an unknown source, from beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the convention of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say.� --Italo Calvino6.What can't you do?�I won't dance, how could I? I won't dance, mer�i beacoup� -Will Young 7.What is love? �I measure time by how a body sways.� --Theodore Rothke, �I Knew A Woman� 8.What is friendship? �Why? Because we love you!� 9.Are you strong? �Well you may be king for the moment, but I am the queen, understand? And I got your pawns and your bishops and castles All inside the palm of my hand.� --Poe, �Control�10.What are you afraid of? �I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and �tis found They go on such strange geometrical hinges, You may open them both ways; any way, for Heaven sake, So I were out of your whispering. Tell my brothers That I perceive death, now I am well awake...� --Webster, The Duchess of Malfi 11.What would you do with a million dollars? "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see." --Samuel Johnson 12.What would you tell the one who loves you?�You�re my corner and I�ve come to hide.� --Sayers, Busman�s Honeymoon 13.What do you want to do? Gondolier: Ciao, belle donne! Vorreste andare nella mia gondola e vedere il curore segreto di Venezia? Genevieve: Grazie, ma non possiamo andare adesso, perche vorremo cenare primo. Sarei qui in due ore? Andremo con te, dopo la cena. Gondolier: Santo cielo! Non posso prometervi niente. Sono molto populare con le ragazze. Genevieve: Quanto costa un�ora? Vogliamo vedere le piccole canale. Saranno solo due persone. Gondolier: Per voi, faro� pagare cento mille lire. Ma, io cantero� e visiteremo la piu� bella area di Venezia. Ragazze, da dove sei? Siete Americane? Genevieve: Si, siamo Americane. Siamo da Pennsylvania. Gondolier: Transylvania? Come Dracula? Il vampiro? Genevieve: No, no! Pennsylvania! Nella costa orientale degli Stati Uniti. Gondolier: Se io vi prendero nella mia gondola, gridiate come Dracula? Genevieve: Perche no? 14.Where do you want to be? ��that still centre where the spinning world turns on its axis, to the heart of rest� Sayers, Gaudy Night 15.What do you want? �You who see all my unworthy and wicked sufferings;invisible, immortal King of Heaven: help my strayed frail soul and help fill out with your grace all that she lacks, so that, though I have lived in war and in storm, I may die in peace and in port. -Petrarch 2:28 p.m. - 2003-05-09 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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