Quote for Today: Bonnie Greer
Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by …
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
All that has never yet been spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one …
Quote for Today: Aimee Bender
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; …
Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a …
Quote for Today: Nicky Wire
There’s a tendency to resort to romantic cliche when talking about libraries; clearly in a digital age they aren’t a “sexy” alternative. Maybe I’m old-fashioned but I still believe that …