Quote for Today: Aristotle
Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being …
Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. —Hermann …
Quote for Today: Erik Pevernagie
Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearean “To be or …
Winner of “Birds” Essay Contest: Field Notes from when the World was Ending, Sara Collie
Synkroniciti is pleased to select “Field Notes from when the World was Ending” by Sara Collie as our essay contest winner and look forward to publishing this beautiful and thoughtful …
Quote for Today: Dean Jackson
When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But …
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter …
Quote for Today: Saul Bellow
Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water of a watermelon, that did it. At …
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Le Blanc
Life cracks us into unrecognizable shards of former incarnations. Slivers of our hurt and our pain and our shame nestles next to fragments of our truth, our divinity, our fierce …
Quote for Today: Dan Beachy-Quick
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another’s ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word …