The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. ― Mary Oliver, Why … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
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Quote for Today: Aimee Bender
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or … Continue reading Quote for Today: Aimee Bender
Quote for Today: Robert Mcfarlane
Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footpath on your own...Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people. Paths are consensual, too, because without common care … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert Mcfarlane
Quote for Today: Mike Kelley
Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves... of the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mike Kelley
Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
I choose not to look upon the fact that I am healthy, have food in my refrigerator and have clean water to drink as givens. They are not givens for so many people in our world. The fact that I am safe and (relatively) sane are not givens. That I was born into a family … Continue reading Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
Quote for Today: Sue Monk Kidd
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Image © Wolfgang Wander with CCLicense
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
