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 …
40 days of poetry: Day 19: Ficus Carica Sonnet by Hoa Nguyen
Day 19: Ficus Carica Sonnet by Hoa Nguyen. This poem is about death and how our thoughts and words can choke us. Is it better to speak or be silent?
Quote for Today: Ezinne Orjiako
Brother, why do we fight like we are not flesh of flesh? Blood of blood. Bone of bone. Like if the time came I would not go to war for …
Quote for Today: Lord Byron
Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable verse; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greece was young, Yet in these times he …
Quote for Today: Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem …
Quote for Today: Maria Lehtman
If only our words would light up the hearts of others – like the sun awakening spring trees and flowers. We might not worry about the evening shadows any longer. …
Quote for Today: Machado de Assis
Lovers’ language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn’t offend against the rules of …
Quote for Today: Herta Müller
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently. …
Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ―Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale …
Quote for Today: Herta Müller
It seems to me that the objects don’t know their material, the gestures don’t know their feelings, and the words don’t know the mouth that speaks them. But to be …