Dying-for-your-beliefs Quote by Stewart Stafford

“so many white roses whose names won’t survive either, resistance groups and newspapers now as forgotten as soldiers waiting for the enemy veiled in…

— Marie-Claire Blais

“The Damned Axe by Stewart Stafford The axe decapitates a head, Society's ills get quickly shed, Can we trust what we don't see? The…

— Stewart Stafford

“Time makes a wound fester and rot, magnifying the pain into brooding despair”

— Tobias Wade

“On the Gallows Once Kofi Awoonor I crossed quite a few of your rivers, my gods, into this plain where thirst reigns I heard…

— Kofi Awoonor

“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The crying and the…

— T.S. Eliot

“He would like to burrow under the earth like a bulb, like a root, to where it is still warm. To hibernate with his…

— Ingeborg Bachmann

“Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“When the hanging's done and the embers at the buring stake are grayed and cold, the conquered bodies of martyrs become the unconquerable ideas”

— Nelson Peery

“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle to get…

— Stewart Stafford

“You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix good and…

— Czesław Miłosz

“We live without feeling the country beneath our feet, our words are inaudible from ten steps away. Any conversation, however brief, gravitates, gratingly, toward…

— Osip Mandelstam

“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist,…

— Virginia Woolf