January 2010
an intense love rushes to your heart,
and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.
- Franz Wright
2:18 PM Jan 31st
They end their flight
one by one -
crows at dusk.
- Buson
4:00 PM Jan 30th
and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless
- Adam Zagajewski
7:04 AM Jan 29th
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
- Maya Angelou
2:49 PM Jan 28th
Yes I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far more elegantly; but let's face it, you weren't listening then either.
- Don Paterson
7:27 AM Jan 28th
There are two kinds of people in this world; those who think there are two kinds of people and those who are smart enough to know better.
- Tom Robbins
2:30 PM Jan 27th
If I'm walking the streets
overwhelmed with this love for the living
I will still be a blizzard at sea
- Franz Wright
7:04 AM Jan 27th
Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes.
- John O'Donohue
3:17 PM Jan 25th
You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you're coming out the other side.
- Chinese proverb
7:23 AM Jan 25th
The devil follows me day and night, because he is afraid to be alone.
- Francis Picabia
10:37 AM Jan 24th
The door to infinity is somewhere in the room with you, right now.
- Gina Rocca
10:47 AM Jan 22nd
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
- Agnes Martin
6:54 AM Jan 22nd
We're all looking for heaven, which is later and elsewhere.
- Norman Fischer
10:48 AM Jan 21st
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
- Albert Camus
7:00 AM Jan 21st
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
- Anne Lamott
12:30 PM Jan 20th
I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.
- Joy Harjo
7:04 AM Jan 20th
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies.
- Joy Harjo
12:27 PM Jan 19th
At whatever pace,
isn't there an imperative to live?
- Stephen Dunn
6:55 AM Jan 19th
I long for a poetry with the taste of gnarled wood
- Dick Allen
3:19 PM Jan 18th
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
- John O'Donohue
9:32 AM Jan 18th
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
- Elaine Scarry
1:33 PM Jan 17th
what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
- Audre Lorde
11:12 AM Jan 16th
How deeply can one go into the distances and yet come back unannihilated by the immensity they represent?
- Peyton Houston
11:39 AM Jan 15th
I open the western window and watch the waves
Stretching on and on to the horizon.
- Su Dongpu
6:52 AM Jan 14th
There is no later. This is later.
- Cormac McCarthy
3:10 PM Jan 13th
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
- Cormac McCarthy
7:05 AM Jan 13th
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
- Cormac McCarthy
6:11 AM Jan 12th
However you paint the larger picture, you are in it.
- Mark Rothko
7:08 AM Jan 11th
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
- Cormac McCarthy
12:51 PM Jan 10th
I don't always mean what I say. But I always say what I say.
- Lucas Green
1:39 PM Jan 9th
I no longer mean all of these. I meant them once. Some of them only once.
- Don Paterson
1:16 PM Jan 9th
Would I live my life over?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
- Raymond Carver
planting words
6:02 AM Jan 8th
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
- Jean Houston
8:16 PM Jan 7th
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
- Ruth Westheimer
6:50 AM Jan 7th
Love, like music, lives in the imagination, but it is no less real for that.
- Robert C. Solomon
7:30 AM Jan 6th
And far above me the cool sky opens upon the frozen distance of the stars.
- Thomas Merton
7:23 PM Jan 5th
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic: but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention.
- Diane Ackerman
7:00 AM Jan 5th
In this immensity my thoughts all drown;
And it's easeful to be wrecked in seas like these.
- Giacomo Leopardi
8:48 AM Jan 4th
There is a quality to reality when I am exhausted: it no longer seems photographed but painted - and therefore much more intended.
- Rodger Kamenetz
7:49 PM Jan 3rd
A dream gives what the day wore out
- Hermann Hesse
9:41 AM Jan 3rd
What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
- Walt Whitman
3:00 PM Jan 2nd
The game was
and is:
it began
and is still in its beginning.
- Matti Itkonen
9:31 AM Jan 2nd
I hope somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
- Neil Gaiman
home sweet home
1:59 PM Jan 1st
The one day stands unmoving in sun and shadow.
- Donald Hall
9:50 AM Jan 1st
and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.
- Franz Wright
2:18 PM Jan 31st
They end their flight
one by one -
crows at dusk.
- Buson
4:00 PM Jan 30th
and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless
- Adam Zagajewski
7:04 AM Jan 29th
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
- Maya Angelou
2:49 PM Jan 28th
Yes I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far more elegantly; but let's face it, you weren't listening then either.
- Don Paterson
7:27 AM Jan 28th
There are two kinds of people in this world; those who think there are two kinds of people and those who are smart enough to know better.
- Tom Robbins
2:30 PM Jan 27th
If I'm walking the streets
overwhelmed with this love for the living
I will still be a blizzard at sea
- Franz Wright
7:04 AM Jan 27th
Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes.
- John O'Donohue
3:17 PM Jan 25th
You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you're coming out the other side.
- Chinese proverb
7:23 AM Jan 25th
The devil follows me day and night, because he is afraid to be alone.
- Francis Picabia
10:37 AM Jan 24th
The door to infinity is somewhere in the room with you, right now.
- Gina Rocca
10:47 AM Jan 22nd
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
- Agnes Martin
6:54 AM Jan 22nd
We're all looking for heaven, which is later and elsewhere.
- Norman Fischer
10:48 AM Jan 21st
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
- Albert Camus
7:00 AM Jan 21st
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
- Anne Lamott
12:30 PM Jan 20th
I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.
- Joy Harjo
7:04 AM Jan 20th
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies.
- Joy Harjo
12:27 PM Jan 19th
At whatever pace,
isn't there an imperative to live?
- Stephen Dunn
6:55 AM Jan 19th
I long for a poetry with the taste of gnarled wood
- Dick Allen
3:19 PM Jan 18th
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
- John O'Donohue
9:32 AM Jan 18th
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
- Elaine Scarry
1:33 PM Jan 17th
what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
- Audre Lorde
11:12 AM Jan 16th
How deeply can one go into the distances and yet come back unannihilated by the immensity they represent?
- Peyton Houston
11:39 AM Jan 15th
I open the western window and watch the waves
Stretching on and on to the horizon.
- Su Dongpu
6:52 AM Jan 14th
There is no later. This is later.
- Cormac McCarthy
3:10 PM Jan 13th
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
- Cormac McCarthy
7:05 AM Jan 13th
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
- Cormac McCarthy
6:11 AM Jan 12th
However you paint the larger picture, you are in it.
- Mark Rothko
7:08 AM Jan 11th
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
- Cormac McCarthy
12:51 PM Jan 10th
I don't always mean what I say. But I always say what I say.
- Lucas Green
1:39 PM Jan 9th
I no longer mean all of these. I meant them once. Some of them only once.
- Don Paterson
1:16 PM Jan 9th
Would I live my life over?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
- Raymond Carver
planting words
6:02 AM Jan 8th
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
- Jean Houston
8:16 PM Jan 7th
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
- Ruth Westheimer
6:50 AM Jan 7th
Love, like music, lives in the imagination, but it is no less real for that.
- Robert C. Solomon
7:30 AM Jan 6th
And far above me the cool sky opens upon the frozen distance of the stars.
- Thomas Merton
7:23 PM Jan 5th
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic: but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention.
- Diane Ackerman
7:00 AM Jan 5th
In this immensity my thoughts all drown;
And it's easeful to be wrecked in seas like these.
- Giacomo Leopardi
8:48 AM Jan 4th
There is a quality to reality when I am exhausted: it no longer seems photographed but painted - and therefore much more intended.
- Rodger Kamenetz
7:49 PM Jan 3rd
A dream gives what the day wore out
- Hermann Hesse
9:41 AM Jan 3rd
What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
- Walt Whitman
3:00 PM Jan 2nd
The game was
and is:
it began
and is still in its beginning.
- Matti Itkonen
9:31 AM Jan 2nd
I hope somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
- Neil Gaiman
home sweet home
1:59 PM Jan 1st
The one day stands unmoving in sun and shadow.
- Donald Hall
9:50 AM Jan 1st
