At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards … Continue reading Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
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Quote for Today: Mona Soorma
From a place of darkness Stars watch the wounded dreams sigh On their bed of aches and broken skin But they are dreams, and all they know is how to rise ―Mona Soorma, Unrequited: Poetry From The Hurting Heart Public Domain Image via The United States Bureau of Land Management
Quote for Today: Thomas Mann
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his … Continue reading Quote for Today: Thomas Mann
Quote for Today: Howard Thurman
One day there will stand up in their midst one who will tell of a new sickness among the children who in their delirium cry for their brothers whom they have never known and from whom they have been cut off behind the self-imposed barriers of their fathers. An alarm will spread throughout the community … Continue reading Quote for Today: Howard Thurman
Quote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
Where is the Refuge? The Melody of our Alienation
The power of the spoken word and the captured image can be woven together in a way that evades description. I thought I had finished synkroniciti's short cycle on Yemen, when I ran across this beautiful poem by Yemeni poet Dr. Abdulaziz Al Maqaleh read so sensitively by Sarah Ahmed. It is a lament for the … Continue reading Where is the Refuge? The Melody of our Alienation
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star. ―John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry … Continue reading Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
