I'm trying to organize my favorite things. More for myself than anyone else. Favorite quotes, favorite pictures, foods, people, moments, places, movies, books, etc. As we go through life we change–and I'm trying to keep track of who I am, where I am, and what I'm aiming at throughout.

5th September 2011

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

I love this poem. It kills me every time. For me, it holds special meaning about the instability and sometimes bitter fight of life, especially when it comes to questions about meaning and existentialism. 

Do not go gentle into that good night, 
Old age should burn and rage at close of day; 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, 
Because their words had forked no lightning they 
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright 
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight 
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height, 
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. 
Do not go gentle into that good night. 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Thomas

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