Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of her internal fire and her soul. Every breath was a letter to the world. These she mailed into the cold air leaning back with pursed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Paulette Jiles
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Quote for Today: C.S. Lewis
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does … Continue reading Quote for Today: C.S. Lewis
Quote for Today: Isadora Duncan
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and … Continue reading Quote for Today: Isadora Duncan
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: Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And … Continue reading Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
The Flourishing Soul of Flamenco
The word flourish signifies not only rampant growth, but a gesture or set of gestures that personify vitality and life. That gesture may be expressed in words, carpentry, architecture, music, dance, cooking. There is no pursuit known to humanity that cannot be executed with flourish. One of the most striking exhibitions of this creative gesture … Continue reading The Flourishing Soul of Flamenco
Quote for Today: Mary Ruefle
It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes. ―Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures Public Domain Image via Pixabay
