Quote for Today: Isaac Leib Peretz
I am a rainworm, buried deep Among the oozing, slimy things, Yet of an eagle’s nest I dream, And eagle’s wings. —Isaac Leib Peretz, “I am a rainworm”, translated by J. Robbins …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and …
Quote for Today: Stephen Sondheim
If I cannot fly… Let me sing. —Stephen Sondheim, “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd Image: Bird in cage/ Fisheye © Aleera with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Douglas Coupland
People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain …
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: Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro …
Quote for Today: Anthon St Maarten
There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must …
Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. …
Quote for Today: Ocean Vuong
I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I …