Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse

“One never reaches home,” she said. “But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.” ―Hermann Hesse, Demian   …

Quote for Today: Edward W. Said

No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on …

Quote for Today: Edward Hirsch

Rhythm would lift the poem off the page, it would bewitch the sounds of language, hypnotize the words into memorable phrases. Rhythm creates a pattern of yearning and expectation, of …