Quote for Today: T. H. White
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling …
Quote for Today: Jill Alexander Essbaum
Dizzy and cold, the stars are wearing veils of grief and weeping as if over me. Under such a sky the only sense I have of myself is senselessness—the indiscriminate …
Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to warn them something evil is coming. And when one …
40 days of poetry: Day 17: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Our poem today is one of my favorite classics, Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. It’s about bonding together in love to find strength in a world that, beautiful and exciting …
Quote for Today: Samantha Schutz
I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he’s going to Spain for the fall semester and he shows me a painting he …
Quote for Today: Glenn Haybittle
I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects in the world loaded with secret history which …
Quote for Today: Ruta Sepetys
“The shoes always tell the story,” said the shoe poet. “Not always,” I countered. “Yes, always. Your boots, they are expensive, well made. That tells me that you come from …
Quote for Today: Crystal Woods
The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we’re forced to become acquainted with sadness. There’s no antibiotic for the ridding of distress, and …
Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me …
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“My life is very monotonous,” the fox said. “I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, …