Quote for Today: Kamand Kojouri
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice …
Quote for Today: Meraaqi
I want to peel away all the labels I had once given to others and place them upon the fabric of my own identity. They have reflected back to me, …
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. ―William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Image © Copyright Neil Theasby with this Creative …
Quote for Today: Wallace J. Nichols
I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and …
Quote for Today: A.E. Housman
Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean The …
Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a …
Quote for Today: Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them …
Quote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you …
Quote for Today: Terry Pratchett
Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from—hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. …
Staring Into the Looking Glass: Creative People and Narcissism
Creative people are often accused of narcissism. Can we alter the negative stereotypes and bad behavior associated with artists? Greek mythology tells the story of Narcissus, a young hunter who …