Eckener Gymnasium Quotes & Sayings

Wild Things in Captivity

Wild things in captivity
while they keep their own wild purity
won't breed, they mope, they die.

All men are in captivity,
active with captive activity,
and the best won't breed, though they don't know why.

The great cage of our domesticity
kills sex in a man, the simplicity
of desire is distorted and twisted awry.

And so, with bitter perversity,
gritting against the great adversity,
they young ones copulate, hate it, and want to cry.

Sex is a state of grace.
In a cage it can't take place.
Break the cage then, start in and try. — D.H. Lawrence

The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One — Stephen Crane

Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word," mankind was engaged in all forms of cruel and despicable behavior. To attribute war, killing, and violence to film, TV, and role-play games is to fly in the face of thousands of years of recorded history. — Gary Gygax

Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life. — Avijeet Das

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die. — Saint Augustine

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world. — Kid Rock

DON PEDRO Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?
LEONATO No, and swears she never will; that's her torment.
CLAUDIO 'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says. 'Shall I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him? — William Shakespeare

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements. — Janet Mock

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. — David Blunkett