Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely …
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell …
Quote for Today: Terence McKenna
Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, …
40 days of poetry: Day 28: At the Temple of Sinawava by Katherine McDaniel
Day 28: This is a poem I wrote after visiting Zion National Park in the glorious state of Utah. It’s about a place, eerie and beautiful, called the Temple of …
Quote for Today: Cormac McCarthy
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in …
Quote for Today: A.S. Byatt
All the way from London, he had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. …
Quote for Today: Georgia O’Keeffe
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. —Georgia O’Keeffe Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Christophe Galfard
Even today, more than eighty years after Oort’s bold guess, we still don’t have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where …
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: Chaim Potok
For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause …