Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter …
Quote for Today: Donna Tarrt
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point …
Quote for Today: Summer Brennan
Our shoes pin us to the world, like Peter Pan to his shadow. More than simply facilitating our movement out-of-doors, they mediate between the wearer and the ground. Perhaps …
Quote for Today: Bashõ
Falling upon earth, Pure water spills from the cup Of the camellia. — Bashõ Image: The camellia’s tears, Katherine McDaniel, 2019
Quote for Today: Kristen Henderson
I tell you once and for all— in front of the angel pictures on the wall, that I am not a host to load-bearing ghosts or heady entities, and if …
Quote for Today: Katherine Dunn
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling …
Quote for Today: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things. ―Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Image: Archers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1935-37
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like …
Quote for Today: Albert Camus
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem. ―Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951 Image: the mask © W H with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Joseph Brodsky
I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is… In any case, I always thought that if the Spirit of God …