Quote for Today: Miles Harvey
A map has no vocabulary, no lexicon of precise meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, coded symbols, and empty spaces, much like music. Nor does a map have …
Quote for Today: Herbert Muschamp
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who …
Quote for Today: Frank Bidart
The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt to make someone or something live again. Both …
Quote for Today: Vladimir Nabokov
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free. —Vladimir Nabokov The Ziggurat of Crestone © 2019 …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ring that determine those of the characters and because it is the …
Quote for Today: Pat Barker
Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human …
Quote for Today: Jenny B. Jones
It was almost painful to watch, that kite of mine. Tethered to the string in my hand. Dancing in the sky all alone. My breath caught in my throat, my …
Quote for Today: Jocelyn Soriano
To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever …
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We …
Quote for Today: Umberto Eco
But is the unicorn a falsehood? It’s the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a …