Quote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
A man has no ears for that which he cannot access through experience. To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains only incidents which lie outside the range of …
Quote for Today: William Shakespeare
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with …
Expectation, Fear and Empathy: Cloud by Katherine McDaniel
Sharing new work can be both a frightening part of the creative process and a moment full of blissful surprise. This poem tells of the swirling feelings of expectation, disappointment, and wonder that are part …
Quote for Today: John Green
When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, …
Quote for Today: Philip Johnson
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into – after all, you haven’t any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You’d …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. ―Jeanette Winterson, Oranges …
Quote for Today: Matsuo Bashō
The temple bell stops– but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. —Matsuo Bashō, translated by Robert Bly, The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems, 1971, Beacon …
Quote for Today: Frank Capra
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. ―Frank Capra
Quote for Today: George Carlin
But when you’re in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you’re guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more …