Poems List

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

The day before yesterday, as I was calmly reading ... I saw a reduced vision of my son Yuri's face, but dead, in a horizontal position, his eyes closed.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Do speak out/profess emphatically/undoubtedly words of faith and success to/for yourself/the present/the future ahead of you. For, speaking/professing like that, creates a winning/prevaling atmosphere for you. ~Emeasoba George.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

What it takes to be thankful/cheerful always is just to realize/acknowledge/believe that all things happen for a reason and for a lesson too. ~Emeasoba George.

Faith is a belief in God/possibility/reality that is strictly based on spiritual conviction/assurance rather than proof. ~Emeasoba George.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

Until you accept your past without any regret, deal with your present proactively and confidently. You will hardly face/embrace/maximize the future ahead of you. ~Emeasoba George.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

True leadership is all about being verbally/attitudinally positive or active, humble/compassionate/passionate/foresighted/pragmatic and proactive all together. ~Emeasoba George.

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

A true leader ought to be responsible and responsive too to the affairs/welfare/well-being of his/her followers/subjects. ~Emeasoba George.