Quote for Today: Ezra Pound
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what …
Quote for Today: Criss Jami
Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and …
Quote for Today: A.A. Milne
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run …
Quote for Today: David McCullough
Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped …
Quote for Today: Paul Cézanne
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. —Paul Cézanne Image: A Painter at Work, Paul …
Quote for Today: Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want …
Quote for Today: Walt Whitman
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than …
Quote for Today: Donald Kingsbury
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known. ―Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite Image: M.C. Escher, Belvedere, 1958 …
Quote for Today: A. S. Byatt
The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge. This is how myths work. They are things, creatures, …