Quote for Today: Frederick Buechner
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your …
Quote for Today: Zadie Smith
People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two lovers, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world …
Quote for Today: Yoko Ono
You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together. ―Yoko Ono, “Water Talk”, Half-A-Wind, 1967 Public Domain …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble …
Burying the Beloved: Love and Loss in Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles
What would you do if the love of your life was taking on something that you knew would kill them? Homer’s Iliad is a mainstay of western culture, one of the first epics …
Quote for Today: C. Joybell C.
They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a …
Quote for Today: Harold Monro
Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn: It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares. And you sing, you sing. That star-enchanted …
Quote for Today: Ryan Lilly
I had a dream about you. I was a cat. You were a red dot. And even those times I caught you, we couldn’t touch. But still I chased you …
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: Sylvia Plath
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t …