Jimmie Dale Gilmore om regnet

Rain don’t fall for the flowers if it’s falling
Rain just falls

Ur “Rain Just Falls”, Fair & Square (1988)

John Prine om kärleken

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I can taste your lipstick in the wine
I can feel your heartbeat close to mine
With your love wrapped around me
I’m silent and still
I know that this love is real

I have tasted other lips I thought were true
I have looked into the eyes I thought were you
Now touching just to touch
And feeling just to feel
I know that this love is real

Ur “This Love Is Real” från Lost Dogs & Missed Blessings

Philip Larkin om tiden

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This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood

Ur "This Is The First Thing", The North Ship (1943)

David Olney om början och slutet

In the end is the beginning
The beginning is the end
Every heart will be broken
Every broken heart will mend

Ur “The end is the beginning”

Håkan Hellström om det dom aldrig nämner

Vad är det som lovar dom unga
som får dom gamla att tro att dom kan överleva
som finns i alla utbrotten
som finns i grabben som står på karmen
till ett fönster
finns i rånarnas fantasier
och i dom olyckligaste kapitlen
om en hund som vart hungrig i mil
tycker inte om nån men kommer ändå in
kommer ändå in

Ur “Det dom aldrig nämner”

Woody Allen om sanningen

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“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”

Harry Block ur Deconstructing Harry (USA, Woody Allen, 1997)

Nick Cave om träd och fåglar

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Tree don’t care what a little bird sings
We go down with the dew in the morning light

Ur “Whe No Who U R” från Push the Sky Away

Louis C.K. om barn

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Any parent who is honest will tell you, you live with that ambivalence. You look at the face of your beautiful, lovely child and you think two things at the exact same time: ‘I love this kid so much that it ‘s changed my whole life. I love other people more because of how much I love her. I love people that died years ago more. My love has traveled time because of how completely I love her and she loves me back. She’s completely given value to life that didn’t exist before and I regret every decision that led to her birth’. That’s how it feels.

Ur Louie, S02E01

Pablo Neruda om våren

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

George Jones om mig utan dig

Imagine a world where no music was playing
then think of a church where nobody’s praying
if you’ve ever looked up at a sky with no blue
then you’ve seen a picture of me without you