We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. --Ezra Pound, The Guide to Kulchur Image: Duff Axsom … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ezra Pound
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Quote for Today: Sarah Moriarty
The four of them stand in the cockpit of the Misdemeanor as they motor from one town to another. They pass their house, which is not theirs any longer. Libby cuts the throttle, and they stall there in front of their sprawling memory. The four of them have come up for the closing; since … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sarah Moriarty
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly … Continue reading Quote for Today: William Faulkner
Quote for Today: Erwin Schrödinger
No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and - as a special class within the whole - mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it carries on. Through the condition at any moment of its somatic, especially its cerebral system, and through education, and tradition, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Erwin Schrödinger
Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
Quote for Today: Ray LaMontagne
Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold And like the sky my soul is also turnin' Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind Could it be that I am finally learnin'? ―Ray LaMontagne, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise, "Old Before My Time" Public … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ray LaMontagne
Quote for Today: Beau Taplin
In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in multitudes. I could be calm and composed all day long, but the moment it is dark, my mind … Continue reading Quote for Today: Beau Taplin
