40 days of poetry: Day 18: Peas by Annie Schmidt
Day 18: Peas by Annie Schmidt, translated by J.H. and J.W. Prins. It’s funny how memory changes the nature of our experience. Our elders are very dear to us.
Quote for Today: Marcel Proust
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us …
Quote for Today: Anton Chekhov
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that …
Quote for Today: Lynsay Sands
Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. …
Quote for Today: Philip K. Dick
Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man …
Water and Light: This is how I get to you by Tuba Sozudogru
Our most important thoughts and feelings are those that are hard to put into words. Can art give them voices? Tuba Sozudogru presented her devastatingly beautiful and profound self portrait, …
Quote for Today: Gabriel García Márquez
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to …
Quote for Today: Burkhard Bilger
One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every …
Quote for Today: Donald Hall
Over the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, …
Quote for Today: Caitlín R. Kiernan
Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbean after her long ocean crossing from Africa, a category five when she …