Quote for Today: Alice Oswald
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly …
Quote for Today: Annie Proulx
Dangerous and indifferent ground: against its fixed mass the tragedies of people count for nothing although the signs of misadventure are everywhere. No past slaughter nor cruelty, no accident nor …
Quote for Today: Liz Braswell
The nautilus shell was exquisite, brown and white and perfectly striped. The math that lay like a dazzling creation spell over all who lived in the sea showed clearly …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
We are all glorified motion sensors. Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change. We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying …
Quote for Today: Theodore Roethke
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where …
Quote for Today: L. M. Montgomery
“When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
Everywhere, imperceptibly or otherwise, things are passing, ending, going. And there will be other summers, other band concerts, but never this one, never again, never as now. Next year I …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for …
Quote for Today: Tennessee Williams
When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. ―Tennessee Williams, The Glass …
Quote for Today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we …