October 2014
Dear specters, I don't even believe
You are here, so how is it
You're making me comprehend
Things I would rather not know just yet?
- Charles Simic
4:00 PM Oct 31st
Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.
- Richard Siken
7:00 AM Oct 30th
and in the end
when the shadow from the ground
enters the body and remains,
in the end, you might say,
This is myself
still unknown, still a mystery.
- Linda Hogan
1:29 PM Oct 29th
You are here, so how is it
You're making me comprehend
Things I would rather not know just yet?
- Charles Simic
4:00 PM Oct 31st
Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.
- Richard Siken
7:00 AM Oct 30th
and in the end
when the shadow from the ground
enters the body and remains,
in the end, you might say,
This is myself
still unknown, still a mystery.
- Linda Hogan
1:29 PM Oct 29th
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
- Rebecca Solnit
8:30 AM Oct 28th
Every day I am someone else. I am myself - I know I am myself - but I am also someone else.
- David Levithan
9:00 AM Oct 27th
All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get on with life.
- Richard Ford
8:00 AM Oct 27th
We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
- David Levithan
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going.
- Mark Strand
Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
- David Levithan
It seems to me sometimes that we never get used to being on this earth and life is just one great, ongoing, incomprehensible blunder.
- W. G. Sebald
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Go on, be cheerful in autumn, Be stoic, yes, be tranquil, calm; Or in the valley of sorrows spread your wings.
- Robert Bly
9:30 AM Oct 21st
In the temper and the tantrum, in the well-kept arboretum
I am waiting, like an animal,
For poetry.
- Katy Lederer
9:00 AM Oct 21st
You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
- John Updike
8:30 AM Oct 20th
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
- Billy Collins
11:00 PM Oct 18th
I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line . . .
- Yukio Mishima
The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like a string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end.
- Jeanette Winterson
9:30 AM | Oct 18th
Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath.
- Annie Dillard
"It's like Zen," he says,
"so filled with paradoxes that it jumps through hoops
that aren't even there."
- Dick Allen
These days are songs, noon air
that flows like warm honey, the maple trees' glissando
of fat buttery leaves
- Barbara Crooker
O crows circling over my head and cawing!
I admit to being, at times,
Suddenly, and without the slightest warning,
Exceedingly happy.
- Charles Simic
to think of how it is
such small beings as we
travel in the dark
with no visible way
or end in sight.
- Mark Strand
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
- Adam Phillips
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries
Advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
- Adam Zagajewski
I love the excesses of beauty,
there is never enough sunlight
in the world I will live in,
never enough room for love.
- Eric Gamalinda
Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
- Audrey Niffenegger
I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors.
- Fernando Pessoa
rush of pine scent (once upon a time),
the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this.
- Paul Celan
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
- Lewis H. Lapham
Human beings
are made of water
we were not designed
to hold ourselves together
We examine each day before us with barely a glance and say, no, this isn't the one I've been looking for.
- Tom Hennen
But if you gently help yourself back to the present moment, you see how life keeps stumbling along and how you may actually find your way through another ordinary or impossible day.
- Annie Lamott
7:00 AM | Oct 6th
Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. The god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
- D. H. Lawrence
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
- Jill Tarter
8:00 AM Oct 3rd
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
- John Green
6:00 AM Oct 2nd
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder why, why, why?
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
- Kurt Vonnegut
1:00 PM | Oct 1st
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo
8:30 AM Oct 1st
