November 2009
I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.
- Peter Gizzi
11:18 AM Nov 30th
The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
- Charles Simic
6:52 AM Nov 30th
You are a human being first, and your goals are merely adjuncts to your basic quest as a person.
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:55 AM Nov 29th
Behind everything | I see, something I don't | Know how to look for.
- Forrest Gander
9:09 AM Nov 28th
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
- David Foster Wallace
8:39 AM Nov 27th
Gratitude is always a matter of paying attention.
- Margaret Visser
6:55 PM Nov 26th
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
- Haruki Murakami
3:09 PM Nov 26th
Relationships are complex because they are part real, part imaginary.
- Martin F. Terman
8:40 AM Nov 26th
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
- Alain de Botton
3:42 PM Nov 25th
In everything beautiful there is something strange.
- Constantine Manos
3:29 PM Nov 25th
The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the bad dream that they are their self-image.
- Dick Olney
11:31 Nov 24th
Your image destroys itself, remakes itself, and is never weary.
- Octavio Paz
7:00 AM Nov 24th
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
- David Foster Wallace
7:07 AM Nov 23rd
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis
9:22 AM Nov 22nd
Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
- Haruki Murakami
8:52 AM Nov 21st
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.
- Fernando Pessoa
1:13 PM Nov 20th
I'm looking out the window at other windows.
- Rosemarie Waldrop
7:00 AM Nov 20th
We must cast arbitrary nets over the unknown. For safety. For once human always an acrobat.
- Rosemarie Waldrop
10:39 AM Nov 19th
I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
- David Foster Wallace
5:56 AM Nov 19th
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
- David Foster Wallace
7:01 AM Nov 18th
Admit you'd like to find something
discarded or damaged, even gone,
and lift it back into the world.
- Stephen Dunn
6:44 AM Nov 17th
There are two endless directions. In and out.
- Agnes Martin
3:13 PM Nov 16th
I did not believe in fate, but it can be a useful excuse.
- Jeanette Winterson
7:07 AM Nov 16th
Here, the slow dance of contingency,
an afternoon connected to an evening
by a slender wish.
- Stephen Dunn
4:50 PM Nov 15th
You're what the autumn knew would happen
after the last collapse
of primary colour
- Adrienne Rich
10:09 AM Nov 15th
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas.
- anonymous
6:56 PM Nov 14th
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart.
- Haruki Murakami
10:16 AM Nov 14th
The sky's murmuring, the storm
that calls you up,
makes promises, never comes.
- Stephen Dunn
6:54 AM Nov 13th
All beings resemble the way we look at them.
- George Hourdin
10:56 AM Nov 12th
Yes this is the moon this hurrying
Muscular unsolid unstillness
This endless wavering in whose engine
I too am living.
- Alice Oswald
6:48 AM Nov 12th
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
- Haruki Murakami
5:36 PM Nov 11th
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
- G.K. Chesterton
9:21 AM Nov 11th
And should the world itself forget your name
Say this to the still earth: I flow.
Say this to the quick stream: I am.
- Don Paterson
12:00 PM Nov 10th
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
(interlude)
10:32 AM Nov 9th
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
- Haruki Murakami
7:06 AM Nov 9th
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valéry
(crashingly beautiful)
2:45 PM Nov 8th
I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no 'I', no 'me.'
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
(wood s lot)
3:37 PM Nov 7th
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
- Zora Neale Hurston
12:25 PM Nov 7th
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
- G.K. Chesterton
1:05 PM Nov 6th
We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.
- Haruki Murakami
7:46 AM Nov 6th
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
- Moliere
2:30 PM Nov 5th
You won't get another day like this one.
- Kenzo Kitakata
6:51 AM Nov 5th
Think in ways you've never thought before.
- Robert Bly
10:13 AM Nov 4th
There is a need for surprise endings.
- Mark Strand
7:17 AM Nov 4th
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
- Oscar Wilde
2:25 PM Nov 3rd
To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- Theodor W. Adorno
7:26 AM Nov 3rd
You must promise me that you will not be satisfied with minor achievements in whatever you do.
- Etan
7:03 AM Nov 2nd
beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
- Henry James
6:06 PM Nov 1st
- Peter Gizzi
11:18 AM Nov 30th
The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
- Charles Simic
6:52 AM Nov 30th
You are a human being first, and your goals are merely adjuncts to your basic quest as a person.
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:55 AM Nov 29th
Behind everything | I see, something I don't | Know how to look for.
- Forrest Gander
9:09 AM Nov 28th
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
- David Foster Wallace
8:39 AM Nov 27th
Gratitude is always a matter of paying attention.
- Margaret Visser
6:55 PM Nov 26th
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
- Haruki Murakami
3:09 PM Nov 26th
Relationships are complex because they are part real, part imaginary.
- Martin F. Terman
8:40 AM Nov 26th
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
- Alain de Botton
3:42 PM Nov 25th
In everything beautiful there is something strange.
- Constantine Manos
3:29 PM Nov 25th
The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the bad dream that they are their self-image.
- Dick Olney
11:31 Nov 24th
Your image destroys itself, remakes itself, and is never weary.
- Octavio Paz
7:00 AM Nov 24th
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
- David Foster Wallace
7:07 AM Nov 23rd
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis
9:22 AM Nov 22nd
Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
- Haruki Murakami
8:52 AM Nov 21st
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.
- Fernando Pessoa
1:13 PM Nov 20th
I'm looking out the window at other windows.
- Rosemarie Waldrop
7:00 AM Nov 20th
We must cast arbitrary nets over the unknown. For safety. For once human always an acrobat.
- Rosemarie Waldrop
10:39 AM Nov 19th
I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
- David Foster Wallace
5:56 AM Nov 19th
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
- David Foster Wallace
7:01 AM Nov 18th
Admit you'd like to find something
discarded or damaged, even gone,
and lift it back into the world.
- Stephen Dunn
6:44 AM Nov 17th
There are two endless directions. In and out.
- Agnes Martin
3:13 PM Nov 16th
I did not believe in fate, but it can be a useful excuse.
- Jeanette Winterson
7:07 AM Nov 16th
Here, the slow dance of contingency,
an afternoon connected to an evening
by a slender wish.
- Stephen Dunn
4:50 PM Nov 15th
You're what the autumn knew would happen
after the last collapse
of primary colour
- Adrienne Rich
10:09 AM Nov 15th
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas.
- anonymous
6:56 PM Nov 14th
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart.
- Haruki Murakami
10:16 AM Nov 14th
The sky's murmuring, the storm
that calls you up,
makes promises, never comes.
- Stephen Dunn
6:54 AM Nov 13th
All beings resemble the way we look at them.
- George Hourdin
10:56 AM Nov 12th
Yes this is the moon this hurrying
Muscular unsolid unstillness
This endless wavering in whose engine
I too am living.
- Alice Oswald
6:48 AM Nov 12th
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
- Haruki Murakami
5:36 PM Nov 11th
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
- G.K. Chesterton
9:21 AM Nov 11th
And should the world itself forget your name
Say this to the still earth: I flow.
Say this to the quick stream: I am.
- Don Paterson
12:00 PM Nov 10th
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
(interlude)
10:32 AM Nov 9th
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
- Haruki Murakami
7:06 AM Nov 9th
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valéry
(crashingly beautiful)
2:45 PM Nov 8th
I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no 'I', no 'me.'
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
(wood s lot)
3:37 PM Nov 7th
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
- Zora Neale Hurston
12:25 PM Nov 7th
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
- G.K. Chesterton
1:05 PM Nov 6th
We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.
- Haruki Murakami
7:46 AM Nov 6th
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
- Moliere
2:30 PM Nov 5th
You won't get another day like this one.
- Kenzo Kitakata
6:51 AM Nov 5th
Think in ways you've never thought before.
- Robert Bly
10:13 AM Nov 4th
There is a need for surprise endings.
- Mark Strand
7:17 AM Nov 4th
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
- Oscar Wilde
2:25 PM Nov 3rd
To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- Theodor W. Adorno
7:26 AM Nov 3rd
You must promise me that you will not be satisfied with minor achievements in whatever you do.
- Etan
7:03 AM Nov 2nd
beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
- Henry James
6:06 PM Nov 1st
