Quote for Today: Muhammad Iqbal
I am a hidden meaning made to defy The grasp of words and walk away With free will and destiny As living, revolutionary clay. –Muhammad Iqbal Image: Woman in the …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; …
Quote for Today: Colleen Hoover
I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I’m relieved that hope isn’t a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling. ―Colleen Hoover, …
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It …
Quote for Today: Patrick Ness
Ah, well, then you’ve never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it’s beyond sight, moving and blue and alive …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me. ―Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. The …
Quote for Today: Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, …
Quote for Today: Jennifer DeLucy
It makes me sad that so many people feel they’re only allowed to show their best face, while their humanity and vulnerabilities are forbidden and hidden. How else do …