Quote for Today: Ken Liu
At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, …
Quote for Today: Chase Jarvis
You’ve heard poets talk about poems flowing out of their bodies; painters, they get on a roll. You all have seen the musician, when they are in that state, the …
Quote for Today: James Jones
And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
“It’s so hard to express yourself.” “I understand this.” “I want to express myself.” “The same is true for me.” “I’m looking for my voice.” “It’s in your mouth.” “I …
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks …
Quote for Today: Marie Rutkoski
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and …
Quote for Today: Suzanne Berne
We are known, appreciated, even cherished by our favorite writers; every word of our favorite books seems to have been written for us. Within their sentences and paragraphs, those writers …
Quote for Today: Mary Ruefle
It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes. ―Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures Public Domain Image via …
Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after …
Quote for Today: Philip K. Dick
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. And that led me to wonder, …