July 2009
Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut grief in?
- William Carlos Williams
6:47 AM July 31st
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am.
- Walt Whitman
9:15 PM July 30th
not as a leap
but a succession of brief, amazing movements
each one making possible the next
- Adrienne Rich
8:39 AM July 30th
And you know what it's like to see face-to-face; and that tempts you to be kind.
- Ranier Maria Rilke
7:34 AM July 28th
Meaning loses meaning, But must still be kept in mind.
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
(wood s lot)
2:45 PM July 27th
I was much farther out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
I was much too far out all my life.
- Stevie Smith
7:48 AM July 27th
gather up these nightmares | this in a public space | where many minds meet
- Anne Waldman
5:14 PM July 26th
Ego's only hope of maintaining the illusion is to get you to quit paying attention to what goes on in your mind.
- Cheri Huber
9:43 AM July 25th
At dusk the mountain begins to withdraw its force back into itself and become quiescent.
- G. Bluestone
7:39 PM July 23rd
sometimes my body fills up with light
until the walls of the container burst
- Robert Epstein
5:37 PM July 22nd
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
- Mark Strand
12:18 PM July 21st
Wisdom, said William James, is learning what to overlook. And I am wise if that is wisdom.
- Randall Jarrell
7:23 AM July 20th
Music and landscape; music, landscape and sentences. Gestures for which there is no balm, no intercession.
- Charles Wright
9:36 AM July 19th
There is no sense of contradiction within the unconscious, opposite ideas exist happily side by side.
- Ernest Jones
9:31 PM July 17th
Life is a horizontal fall.
- Jean Cocteau
8:34 AM July 17th
you live best as an appreciator of horizons, whether you reach them or not.
- David Whyte
10:35 PM July 15th
I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather.
- Stanley Kunitz
6:57 AM July 15th
someone convince me of the necessity of doing everything but what I really want to do
1:29 PM July 14th
We act as creative elements of the creative world, as the self-determinations of the absolute present.
- Kitaro Nishida
8:10 AM July 14th
You have two ways to live your life, from memory or from inspiration.
- Joe Vitale
(lassie & timmy)
4:35 PM July 13th
these words, these whispers, conversations from which time after time the truth breaks moist and green.
- Adrienne Rich
10:19 AM July 12th
A conversation begins with a lie and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the drift apart, as if powerless, as if up against a force of nature.
- Adrienne Rich
8:10 AM July 11th
The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning.
- Theodor Adorno
10:15 AM July 10th
Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
- Denise Levertov
8:14 AM July 9th
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(lassie & timmy)
7:49 PM July 8th
World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.
- Louis MacNeice
3:42 PM July 7th
coffee
in a papercup
a long way from home
- Gary Hotham
6:22 AM July 7th
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
- Theodor W. Adorno
8:02 AM July 6th
My mind is elsewhere, but my body is too.
2:59 PM July 5th
- a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.
- Stephen Dunn
9:10 AM July 5th
We want to be here.
The act of being, the act of being
More than oneself.
- George Oppen
(wood s lot)
10:37 PM July 4th
Summer grasses:
all that remains of great soldiers'
imperial dreams
- Basho
10:32 AM July 4th
Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.
- Reeve Lindbergh
6:51 PM July 3rd
Life is not simple, and it takes a great deal of time to master.
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:47 AM July 2nd
We human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.
- Franz Kafka
10:00 PM July 1st
I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
- Thoreau
8:14 AM July 1st
- William Carlos Williams
6:47 AM July 31st
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am.
- Walt Whitman
9:15 PM July 30th
not as a leap
but a succession of brief, amazing movements
each one making possible the next
- Adrienne Rich
8:39 AM July 30th
And you know what it's like to see face-to-face; and that tempts you to be kind.
- Ranier Maria Rilke
7:34 AM July 28th
Meaning loses meaning, But must still be kept in mind.
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
(wood s lot)
2:45 PM July 27th
I was much farther out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
I was much too far out all my life.
- Stevie Smith
7:48 AM July 27th
gather up these nightmares | this in a public space | where many minds meet
- Anne Waldman
5:14 PM July 26th
Ego's only hope of maintaining the illusion is to get you to quit paying attention to what goes on in your mind.
- Cheri Huber
9:43 AM July 25th
At dusk the mountain begins to withdraw its force back into itself and become quiescent.
- G. Bluestone
7:39 PM July 23rd
sometimes my body fills up with light
until the walls of the container burst
- Robert Epstein
5:37 PM July 22nd
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
- Mark Strand
12:18 PM July 21st
Wisdom, said William James, is learning what to overlook. And I am wise if that is wisdom.
- Randall Jarrell
7:23 AM July 20th
Music and landscape; music, landscape and sentences. Gestures for which there is no balm, no intercession.
- Charles Wright
9:36 AM July 19th
There is no sense of contradiction within the unconscious, opposite ideas exist happily side by side.
- Ernest Jones
9:31 PM July 17th
Life is a horizontal fall.
- Jean Cocteau
8:34 AM July 17th
you live best as an appreciator of horizons, whether you reach them or not.
- David Whyte
10:35 PM July 15th
I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather.
- Stanley Kunitz
6:57 AM July 15th
someone convince me of the necessity of doing everything but what I really want to do
1:29 PM July 14th
We act as creative elements of the creative world, as the self-determinations of the absolute present.
- Kitaro Nishida
8:10 AM July 14th
You have two ways to live your life, from memory or from inspiration.
- Joe Vitale
(lassie & timmy)
4:35 PM July 13th
these words, these whispers, conversations from which time after time the truth breaks moist and green.
- Adrienne Rich
10:19 AM July 12th
A conversation begins with a lie and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the drift apart, as if powerless, as if up against a force of nature.
- Adrienne Rich
8:10 AM July 11th
The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning.
- Theodor Adorno
10:15 AM July 10th
Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
- Denise Levertov
8:14 AM July 9th
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(lassie & timmy)
7:49 PM July 8th
World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.
- Louis MacNeice
3:42 PM July 7th
coffee
in a papercup
a long way from home
- Gary Hotham
6:22 AM July 7th
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
- Theodor W. Adorno
8:02 AM July 6th
My mind is elsewhere, but my body is too.
2:59 PM July 5th
- a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.
- Stephen Dunn
9:10 AM July 5th
We want to be here.
The act of being, the act of being
More than oneself.
- George Oppen
(wood s lot)
10:37 PM July 4th
Summer grasses:
all that remains of great soldiers'
imperial dreams
- Basho
10:32 AM July 4th
Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.
- Reeve Lindbergh
6:51 PM July 3rd
Life is not simple, and it takes a great deal of time to master.
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:47 AM July 2nd
We human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.
- Franz Kafka
10:00 PM July 1st
I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
- Thoreau
8:14 AM July 1st
