The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

classic quote by Francis Bacon
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The most lasting monuments are doubtless paper-monuments.

French proverbs
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

quote by Robert Smithson
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Monuments

In our lands are monuments
for the dear and departed.
Some are for some daring deeds;
others are put in someone’s favourite place,
hoping someone else will enjoy
all the beauty that they gazed upon.
Some monuments serve as a warning,
erected about some evil deed
to remember all that perished.
So the next time you pass a monument
read the inscription there,
learn a little of its presentation.
Become a little wiser to its stature
and the one it is dedicated to,
for you never know in the future
someone may erect a monument to honour you.

24 September 2008

poem by David Harris
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

quote by Frank Wedekind
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I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

quote by Tommy Douglas
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Live a life as a monument to your soul.

quote by Ayn Rand
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The Statue of Liberty is not that monument's name. It is Liberty Enlightening the World.

quote by Deane Jordan
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Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

quote by John L. Motley
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The Monument

Now can you see the monument? It is of wood
built somewhat like a box. No. Built
like several boxes in descending sizes
one above the other.
Each is turned half-way round so that
its corners point toward the sides
of the one below and the angles alternate.
Then on the topmost cube is set
a sort of fleur-de-lys of weathered wood,
long petals of board, pierced with odd holes,
four-sided, stiff, ecclesiastical.
From it four thin, warped poles spring out,
(slanted like fishing-poles or flag-poles)
and from them jig-saw work hangs down,
four lines of vaguely whittled ornament
over the edges of the boxes
to the ground.
The monument is one-third set against
a sea; two-thirds against a sky.
The view is geared

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poem by Elizabeth Bishop
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

quote by Bruce Jackson
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

quote by Maya Lin
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This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

quote by Bill Russell
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I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

quote by Paul Harvey
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Sweat of labourers,
Taxes of the commoners,
Well-built monuments.

haiku by MBJ Pancras
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When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

quote by Stanislaw Lec
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A Nice Day

Walk the steps to old monuments
White silk clouds
Awareness of the joy within
Awareness of the soldier
Awareness of the homeless
Old man feeds pigeons
His park bench on a groomed lawn
This blue sky has answers
An old friend is taking photos
Everything I am is here
The sun on my face
Breeze through my hair
Monument of a civil war general

A real killer of Indians
Worked for the railroad
Helped clear the west
Native Americans in nameless graves
No monuments
This killer gets streets named after him

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poem by Joseph Narusiewicz
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Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest was a testament to human achievement, my climb of Mount Everest in my shorts will be a monument to the frivolous, decadent nature of modern society.

quote by Wim Hof (2007)
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The Fever Monument

I walked across the park to the fever monument.
It was in the center of a glass square surrounded
by red flowers and fountains. The monument
was in the shape of a sea horse and the plaque read
We got hot and died.

poem by Richard Brautigan
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