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 …
Quote for Today: William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that’s it. Almost nothing. Nothing …
Quote for Today: Augusten Burroughs
I want to write something that means something to someone…that reminds them of what a second, a moment, really is…or that assures them that we are just as lost as …
Quote for Today: Lois McMaster Bujold
It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for. —Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia’s Honor Public Domain Image via …
Quote for Today: Robert Grudin
…as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, the agonies of excellence reappear in new and frightening ways. A tiny …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
The word I love is Arete. It has a simple meaning and a complicated meaning. The simple one is: excellence. But if that were all, we’d just use Excellence and …
Quote for Today: Bessel van der Kolk
Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. Numerous studies of …