Tuesday

July 2014

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies.
 - Joy Harjo
7:59 AM July 31st


You are a walking paradigm of the human condition - you think you know more about the universe than you actually do.
 - Mary Ruefle
7:31 AM July 31st
The truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don't know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you're going.
 - Lykke Li
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
 - Anne Lamott
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
 - Voltaire
The illusion at the end of the day. I mean that this will continue tomorrow. I mean that this will end today.
 - Mary Ruefle
And dazzling impermanence of days we beg our meanings from,
And their frayed loveliness.
 - Charles Wright
There's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.
 - Tim Tharp
Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
 - Jim Harrison
Here among the thirty thousand days of a long life, a single day stands still.
 - Donald Hall
Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. 
Perhaps they are.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.
 - Jim Harrison
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
 - Anne Lamott
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
 - Voltaire
All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing.
 - Clementine von Radics
So far, so good. The brilliant days and nights are 
breathless in their hurry. We follow, you and I.
- Lisel Mueller
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
 - Robert Bly
This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,
our chances of being alive together
statistically nonexistent
- Lisel Mueller
Life, wrote a friend of mine, is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
 - E. M. Forster
There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.
 - David Ignatow
Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about 
how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost 
imperceptible breeze.
 - Jim Harrison
At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.
 - Jim Harrison
The light from the stars makes the shadow equal to the body.
Light from fire makes it greater,
there, under the tongue, there, under the utterance.
 - Charles Wright
A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.
 - Eugène Ionesco
When the wind blows, if you want to believe that sound is me talking, then it's me talking.
 - Lillian Kwok
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us - what happens with the rest?
 - Pascal Mercier
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
 - Rollo May
At no point in the day may I fall to my knees and
refuse to go on, it's not done.
 - Franz Wright
Do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?
 - Epictetus


Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
 - Cheryl Strayed
Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.
 - Sarah Manguso
Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times his own weight a day just to stay alive. 
Now that's a life on the edge.
 - Charles Wright
Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.
 - Shauna Niequist
Every once and a while, take off your life, and rest.
 - Nayyirah Waheed
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing.
 - R. H. Blyth
If the Devil sits down, offer companionship,
tell her you've always admired
her magnificent, false moves.
 - Stephen Dunn
There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it.
A moon and a sun.
A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it.
 - Kabir
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
 - Pascal Mercier
8:00 AM July 3rd
Because I am mostly a thinking thing
And because this precise question is
Only from that thoughtful part of myself
 - Allen Grossman
7:45 AM July 3rd
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
 - Philip Larkin
8:00 AM July 2nd
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
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
8:05 AM July 1st