Quote for Today: Eudora Welty

  Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in …

Quote for Today: Danny Gregory

  There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you’ll get. In fact, you’ll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences …

Quote for Today: Italo Calvino

  A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …

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 …

Quote for Today: Paolo Coelho

“I’ve been through all this before,” he says to his heart. “Yes, you have been through all this before,” replies his heart. “But you have never been beyond it.” ―Paulo …