Quote for Today: Grant Fairley
People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can’t just let it be “water under the bridge.” It is water under the bridge – the trouble is we do not live on …
Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ―T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, …
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. ―Milan Kundera, Ignorance
Quote for Today: Pablo Casals
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. —Pablo Casals
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And …
Quote for Today: Hugo Hamilton
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at …
Quote for Today: Angela Carter
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail …
Quote for Today: Keith Jarrett
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It’s a language that was alien and then it’s less and less alien as it continues to live. …
Quote for Today: William H. Gass
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the …
Faking English: Skwerl by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston
If a conversation contains patterns taken from English but not sensible words, do we still perceive it as English? What is it that gives a language its own personality and …