Quote for Today: Barbara Brown Taylor
Later, when I stood in front of an altar waving incense, I would remember standing in front of the bar at Dante’s waving cigarette smoke out of my face, and …
Quote for Today: R. W. Bemmelen
We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In …
Quote for Today: Edgar Degas
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. ― Edgar Degas Edgar Degas, …
Quote for Today: Piper Payne
There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand …
Quote for Today: Glenn Haybittle
I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects in the world loaded with secret history which …
Quote for Today: Federico Fellini
When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. …
Quote for Today: Leah Hager Cohen
The truth beyond the fetish’s glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view …
Quote for Today: Billy Collins
Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say …
Quote for Today: Roger Rosenblatt
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding …
Quote for Today: N.D. Wilson
To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies …