September 2010

The highest value is reconciliation and generosity, to be at ease, to settle quarrels. Tranquility of mind.
- Robert Farris Thompson
2:03 PM Sept 30th


This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
- Jeanette Winterson
7:48 AM Sept 30th


What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
- C. S. Lewis
11:11 AM Sept 29th


Mankind owns four thing that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars, and the fear of going down.
- Antonio Machado
8:13 AM Sept 29th


For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened.
- Joanna Macy
8:14 PM Sept 27th


Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
- Jeanette Winterson
7:00 AM Sept 24th


We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting laundry.
- E. B. White
3:00 PM Sept 23rd


Smile, if only from politeness, at the one moment of the world that concerns you.
- Jean Grosjean
7:00 AM Sept 23rd


People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
- Jeanette Winterson
7:07 AM Sept 22nd


The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
- Joseph Conrad
2:30 PM Sept 21st


Don't look back - something might be gaining on you.
- Satchel Paige
8:51 AM Sept 21st


It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:30 AM Sept 20th


From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
- E. B. White
3:37 PM Sept 19th


Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
- Joseph Conrad
2:03 PM Sept 19th


I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage
2:18 PM Sept 18th


So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
- Virginia Woolf
6:54 AM Sept 16th


Nothing in itself, beauty may be a mental solvent that dissolves something else, melting it into radiance.
- Peter Schjeldahl
7:37 AM Sept 15th


You're not expecting anything to be there, but you're always wondering if there might be.
- Richard Leviton
7:21 AM Sept 14th


Dissonance
(if you are interested)
leads to discovery.
- William Carlos Williams
5:35 PM Sept 12th


There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
- John Berger
6:54 AM Sept 10th


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
6:54 AM Sept 9th


The most important thing a person has to say he will not invariably proclaim out loud.
- Walter Benjamin
1:13 PM Sept 8th


What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
- C. S. Lewis
6:54 AM Sept 8th


Express yourself: That is meaning.
- Deng Ming-Dao
7:00 AM Sept 7th


Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
- Anne Lamott
6:37 AM Sept 7th


Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
- Victor Hugo
2:01 PM Sept 6th


Then I smile again, just because I can.
- Hayden Carruth
9:21 AM Sept 5th


The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.
- Saul Bellow
12:21 PM | Sept 3rd


We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff
6:33 AM Sept 3rd


In the midst of this world
we stroll along the roof of hell
gawking at flowers
- Issa
7:00 AM Sept 2nd


Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; truth is apt to be neither.
- Christmas Humphreys
6:50 AM Sept 1st

August 2010

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
- Marc Chagall
6:39 AM August 31st


Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
- Robert Frost
7:20 PM | August 30th


You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
- Saul Bellow
6:28 AM August 30th


Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell.
- Meister Eckhart
8:00 PM August 29th


Yes - that peculiar affirmative. Yes - a sharp, indrawn breath, half groan, half acceptance, that means Life's like that. We know it.
- Elizabeth Bishop
12:55 PM | August 29th


I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
- Saul Bellow
7:30 PM August 28th


We know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
- William Carlos Williams
6:52 AM August 27th


This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
- Natalie Goldberg
6:59 AM August 26th


You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
- Saul Bellow
6:55 AM August 25th


Each squawk you think is the last; but no, some diehard starts afresh. Sometimes I lie awake listening. Surely now the night is over, but no, not yet.
- Wendell Berry
6:00 AM | August 24th


Peace of heart is something you have to fight for every day and it has very little to do with your circumstance.
- Andre Agassi
6:50 AM August 23rd


I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not just in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
5:35 PM August 22nd


We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
- Saul Bellow
8:17 PM | August 21st


Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?
- Saul Bellow
9:42 AM August 18th


Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
7:41 AM August 17th


Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
- Natalie Goldberg
8:35 AM | August 16th


Time unfolds into the seams of being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
- Don DeLillo
6:33 PM August 15th


Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
- Margaret Atwood
3:05 PM August 15th


When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.
- but does it float
1:56 PM August 12th


Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
- Vladimir Nabokov
9:12 AM August 12th


It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
- Gaston Bachelard
6:23 AM August 12th


I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
- Arthur Rimbaud
8:46 AM August 11th


We make a dwelling in the evening air
In which being there together is enough.
- Wallace Stevens
7:00 PM August 10th


What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?
- Margaret Atwood
7:05 AM August 10th


When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
- Margaret Atwood
8:28 AM August 9th


And the sea lifts and falls all night, the moon goes on through the unattached heavens alone.
- Robert Bly
7:48 PM August 8th


Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
- Meister Eckhart
10:14 AM August 4th


The most admirable thing about the fantastic is that the fantastic does not exist: everything is real.
- André Breton
8:24 AM August 2nd


The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- Gilbert Chesterton
9:09 AM August 1st