My Fallen Angel

My fallen angel,
My blessing,
Your tragedy,
On your way to heaven,
I grabbed your wings,
And pulled you to me,
Seeped your warmth,
And left you cold,
My fallen angel,
Guide of beauty,
Fallen angel I'm sorry,
Your tragedies my blessing,
I can't let you go,
Heavens too far,
Fallen angel,
Stay where you fell.
Stay with me.

poem by Holly Heron
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Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

quote by Charlton Heston
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

quote by Edward Bond
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One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

quote by Joseph Stalin
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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

quote by Lucinda Williams
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

quote by Jacques Barzun
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The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

quote by Pierre Corneille
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The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

quote by George Stanley McGovern
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Lovehatetragedy

Human behavior
Peculiar it seems
Some thrive on hate
Some love the dream
Everyone's got a purpose and wants to be loved
I think I found my purpose
I think I found love

Hidden inside myself

Tragedy
Strikes when you least expect it

Hate and destruction crashed down on our world
The stars and the stripes
The boys and the girls
It's sad it took war just to bring us together
I believe in love
I believe in forever

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song performed by Papa Roach from Lovehatetragedy
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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

quote by Aldous Huxley
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

quote by Vernon Jordan
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Knowledge Is Both Gift And Curse

In the darkness i sit and wait,
Knowing the world's tragic fate,
The world will end when comes night,
Never again will we see dawns morning light,
I know the terror, fear and sorrow,
Of knowing there, will be no tomorrow,
And so in the darkness i sit and wait,
Knowing the world's tragic fate,
I wish to God i could forget,
The Earths demise, that is in time set,
Constantly thinking of the soon dead,
I put a bullet through my head,
This is what happens when you sit and wait,
Knowing the world's tragic fate,

poem by Kieran J1996
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Super Lyrical

PUNISHER --
Ay-yo my murderous rap verbal attack is actual fact
Tactical tracks match perfectly with graphical stats
Half a you lack the magical dap of tragical rap
That tackles you back and shackles and laughs at you
That's...the mathematical madness I'm on

song performed by Big Punisher from Capital Punishment
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The Reverend Micah Sowls

The REVEREND MICAH SOWLS,
He shouts and yells and howls,
He screams, he mouths, he bumps,
He foams, he rants, he thumps.

His armour he has buckled on, to wage
The regulation war against the Stage;
And warns his congregation all to shun
"The Presence-Chamber of the Evil One,"

The subject's sad enough
To make him rant and puff,
And fortunately, too,
His Bishop's in a pew.

So REVEREND MICAH claps on extra steam,
His eyes are flashing with superior gleam,
He is as energetic as can be,
For there are fatter livings in that see.

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poem by William Schwenck Gilbert
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Picasso Anti-War Pigment Symbols

Pablo Picasso moments
painted Spanish Civil War screams
Guernica shows tragedies

war sown suffering festering war inflicts
upon drift swept caught conflict individuals
consumes pale innocent seed civilians

cubist monumental status
perpetual reminder tragedies
anti-war pigment symbols

black white intolerant party issues
suffering people animals landscapes
buildings wreckage violence chaos

stage rage left fractured wide-eyed bull stands
over a lost woman mother shadow grieving pities
raw ruptured screams dead child in waste arms

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

quote by Judith Guest
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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

quote by Andrew Coyle Bradley
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The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy. Where pathos rules, where pathos is finally derived, a character has fought a battle he could not possibly have won. The pathetic is achieved when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity, or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force. Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief — optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

quote by Arthur Miller
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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

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Tragedy

(Emmylou Harris/Rodney Crowell)
Some say it's destiny
Whether triumph or tragedy
But I believe we cast our nets out on the sea
And nothing we gather
Comes for free
I would have paid down through the years
A price beyong rubies beyond tears
To keep you safe with me
But your suspicion and your fear
Your vow to let nobody near was your trinity
Such a tragedy
I drew the best hand you'd ever hold
Then cashed my winnings in long ago
Settled for silver how could I know
You were waiting with the gold
I could have caused your heart to yield
But I was only a disturbance in the field
Of your dreams
And I will never see you cry

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song performed by Emmylou Harris
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