When, however, one reads of a witch being dunked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
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Quote for Today: Billy Collins
Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a … Continue reading Quote for Today: Billy Collins
Quote for Today: John Burroughs
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places. --John Burroughs Image © Adityamadhav83 with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Sanober Khan
it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know that I too, have been bruised...by beauty. ― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence Image © Lorie Schaull with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Walker-thinkers have found various ways to accommodate the gifts that their walking brings. Caught paperless on his walks in the Czech enclaves of Iowa, maestro Dvořák scribbles the string quartets that visited his brain on his starched white shirt cuffs (so the legend goes). More proactively, Thomas Hobbes fashioned a walking stick for himself … Continue reading Quote for Today: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
Oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine stands in our house working away in its lung-like voice. I hear it as I kneel before the fire, stirring with a stick of iron, letting the logs lie more loosely. You, in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
Share your gifts. Learn from the gifts of others. Stay open to whichever role — teacher and/or student — life is calling on you to play. And bring as much acceptance and love to each performance. When we walk through life as only a teacher, we miss out on learning from the world around us. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
