Quote for Today: Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Listen to th’ wind wutherin’ round the house,” she said. “You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight.” Mary did not know what …
Quote for Today: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, …
Look and Listen #17: Glass Artist Preston Singletary, Raven and The Box of Daylight from Craft in America
Preston Singletary is a Tlingit artist working in glass. The Tlingit people are famous for their art and storytelling and the incredible iconographic tradition that they have built is unique …
Look and Listen #5: Leah Anderson, You Ask Me What I Am So You May Know How To Fear Me from Button Poetry
There is a fine line between admiring someone and exploiting them. Leah Anderson explores how it feels to be singled out. “You Ask Me What I Am So You May …
Quote for Today: Walt Whitman
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun…. there are millions …
Quote for Today: Alexander Chee
When I am gripped with despair, when I think I might stop, I speak to my dead. Tell them a story. What am I doing with this life? They hold …
Quote for Today: Iris Murdoch
The idea of attention or contemplation, of looking carefully at something and holding it before the mind, may be conveyed early on in childhood. ‘Look, listen, isn’t that nice?’ Also, …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure …
Quote for Today: Anna Quindlen
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and …
Quote for Today: John O’Donohue
Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from other people. We ingest labels …