August 2013
I learned that the best way to take all people is for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
- William Faulkner
8:00 AM August 31st
there was more than just being as I was:
wind in the woods, a forest in my mind,
the mind of my life found in the forest,
the Thing being named my thing, as it was.
- Sarah Arvio
7:16 AM | 7:17 AM August 30th
I now exist on the principle of shortsightedness, which demands enhanced attention to the moment.
- Anna Kamienska
6:00 AM August 29th
I've learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what's unsaid, what's underneath.
- Anna Kamienska
11:50 AM August 28th
The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.
- Toi Derricotte
8:00 PM August 27th
the work of the morning is methodology: how to use oneself, and on what. That is my profession. I am an archaeologist of morning.
- Charles Olson
9:09 AM August 26th
Something
Ought to be written about how this affects
You when you write poetry
- John Ashbery
8:55 AM August 25th
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
- Raymond Carver
9:04 AM August 24th
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled -
to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
- Mary Oliver
7:59 AM | August 23rd
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.
- Mary Ellen Chase
8:00 AM August 22nd
The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear
- Alicia Ostriker
7:29 AM | August 21st
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
- Anthony de Mello
8:01 AM August 20th
I might have been myself minus amazement,
that is,
someone completely different.
- Wislawa Szymborska
7:59 AM August 19th
- William Faulkner
8:00 AM August 31st
there was more than just being as I was:
wind in the woods, a forest in my mind,
the mind of my life found in the forest,
the Thing being named my thing, as it was.
- Sarah Arvio
7:16 AM | 7:17 AM August 30th
I now exist on the principle of shortsightedness, which demands enhanced attention to the moment.
- Anna Kamienska
6:00 AM August 29th
I've learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what's unsaid, what's underneath.
- Anna Kamienska
11:50 AM August 28th
The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.
- Toi Derricotte
8:00 PM August 27th
the work of the morning is methodology: how to use oneself, and on what. That is my profession. I am an archaeologist of morning.
- Charles Olson
9:09 AM August 26th
Something
Ought to be written about how this affects
You when you write poetry
- John Ashbery
8:55 AM August 25th
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
- Raymond Carver
9:04 AM August 24th
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled -
to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
- Mary Oliver
7:59 AM | August 23rd
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.
- Mary Ellen Chase
8:00 AM August 22nd
The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear
- Alicia Ostriker
7:29 AM | August 21st
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
- Anthony de Mello
8:01 AM August 20th
I might have been myself minus amazement,
that is,
someone completely different.
- Wislawa Szymborska
7:59 AM August 19th
The essential experience: the body sensing itself existing; the mind going its own way.
- Charles Simic
10:00 AM August 17th
like the moment just before you forgot
what it was you were about to say,
it was like that, and after that,
it was still like that, only all the time.
- Marie Howe
5:30 AM | August 16th
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
- Dorothy Parker
To write in spite of everything, even when generally speaking there is nothing to spite.
- Vera Pavlova
8:00 PM August 13th
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
- Maya Angelou
8:00 AM August 12th
What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?
- Mark Doty
7:30 PM August 11th
Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
- Mark Doty
7:00 PM August 11th
Because the story of our life
becomes our life
Because each of us tells
the same story
but tells it differently
and none of us tells it
the same way twice
- Lisel Mueller
3:00 PM | August 10th
And if you have not been enchanted by this adventure -
Your life -
What would do for you?
- Mary Oliver
7:30 AM August 9th
in spite of all the mysteries and illusions, you ache with it all, and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8:08 PM August 8th
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write
- W. S. Merwin
8:00 AM August 8th
Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.
- Pema Chödrön
8:00 AM August 7th
Out of nowhere, the mind comes forth.
- The Diamond Sutra
9:00 AM August 6th
Outside, the world swarmed with sorcerers.
- Susan Howe
7:15 AM August 5th
like the four walls of day that enclose me
that join sometimes into a single wall in front
of which
I find myself — outside.
- André du Bouchet
12:00 PM August 3rd
Be where your body is, not where your mind is trying to take you.
- Guy Finley
8:30 AM August 3rd
I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
- Jeanette Winterson
7:30 AM August 1st
