July 2015
I did not think of language as the means to self-description. I thought of it as the door - a thousand opening doors! - past myself.
- Mary Oliver
1:00 PM July 31st
The people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another.
- Italo Calvino
7:30 AM July 31st
So, it comes first: the world. Then, literature. And then, what one pencil moving over a thousand miles of paper can (perhaps, sometimes) do.
- Mary Oliver
8:45 AM July 30th
There is a way to master silence
Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners
And listen to the hiss of time outside
- Paul Bowles
8:00 AM July 29th
- Mary Oliver
1:00 PM July 31st
The people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another.
- Italo Calvino
7:30 AM July 31st
So, it comes first: the world. Then, literature. And then, what one pencil moving over a thousand miles of paper can (perhaps, sometimes) do.
- Mary Oliver
8:45 AM July 30th
There is a way to master silence
Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners
And listen to the hiss of time outside
- Paul Bowles
8:00 AM July 29th
Self-consciousness is like interrupting a song after every note to listen to the echo, and feeling irritated because of the loss of rhythm.
- Alan Watts
9:09 PM | July 28th
Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love.
- Anna Akhmatova
9:30 AM July 28th
You think you have agreed to this,
what has been done with your life, willingly.
- Tess Gallagher
2:00 PM July 24th
And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away
from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
- Mary Oliver
11:00 AM July 23rd
We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors.
- Cecilia Ruiz
7:00 AM July 23rd
Wisdom grows on trees. You can pick it fresh, consume it on the spot. It's everywhere. Take a bite.
- Sayings of Te Toh
6:00 AM July 22nd
It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
- Albert Einstein
3:30 PM July 21st
All these will add up to something and be gone forever
Just like what is here one minute and not the next.
- Anne Waldman
7:00 AM July 21st
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust.
- Ted Hughes
4:00 PM July 20th
what pulls down or what
strikes at or what shatters
this ruse you call necessity.
- Louise Erdrich
11:00 AM July 20th
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
- Terry Pratchett
8:30 AM July 18th
Every person is unique and autonomous and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time.
- Thomas Bernhard
11:30 AM July 17th
I might enjoy being an albatross,
being able to glide for days and
daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals.
- Seamus Heaney
6:30 AM July 17th
people get quiet and stare off
at their own little bit of nothing as if
it is everything.
- Bob Hicok
1:00 PM July 16th
The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: the body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.
- Eduardo Galeano
9:30 AM | July 16th
Suspect too much sweet-talk
but never close your mind.
- Seamus Heaney
7:00 AM July 15th
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- Iris Murdoch
2:00 PM July 14th
We measure our real respect for people by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate and enjoy. End of sermon.
- Ted Hughes
6:00 AM | July 14th
Every word is a doorway
to a meeting, one often cancelled,
and that's when a word is true: when it insists on the meeting.
- Yiannis Ritsos
8:00 AM July 13th
Yes, we are a shambles.
- Linda Hogan
7:30 AM July 13th
I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
9:30 AM July 12th
All of life is a near-death experience.
- Alan Harris
7:50 AM July 11th
Figures. They let you in for free. Then you gotta pay for the rest of your life.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
7:30 AM July 10th
On earth, the terrible things
and the beautiful things
continue to happen beside each other.
On the moon in the darkness, nothing.
On earth in the darkness, sometimes
rain swells like applause.
- Jeffrey Morgan
7:00 AM | July 9th
It is getting dark. In the low mists over the hills, an orange glow broods, as if the trees are on fire.
- Twan Eng Tan
7:00 PM July 8th
Never meet a person's anger directly. Deflect, distract him, even agree with him. Unbalance his mind, and you can lead him anywhere you want.
- Twan Eng Tan
8:00 AM July 8th
The wind had to blow the clouds here
before it could blow them away.
- Wislawa Szymborska
If you no longer believe in lies, automatically love starts coming out of you.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
As the firefly ignites and fades out,
ignites and fades out
in glimpses we
can trace its flight
in the dark among the olive trees
- Tomas Tranströmer
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Day follows day in endless succession, and the years vanish, and we walk sightless among miracles.
- Chaim Stern
But get this: you're free. Freedom is the greatest gift to the artist. Don't waste it.
- Kapka Kassabova
8:00 AM July 5th
I say to her, "Did you dictate the Pages
Of Hell to Dante?" She answers, "Yes, I did."
- Anna Akhmatova
7:30 AM July 4th
The hot summer rustles
Like a carnival outside my window
- Anna Akhmatova
8:30 AM July 3rd
I saw the light lie
in the deep chasm of a street,
palpable and blue,
as though it had drifted in
from say, the sea,
a purity of space.
- William Bronk
1:00 PM July 2nd
With enigmatic clarity, Life gives us a different answer each time we ask her the same question.
- Yahia Lababidi
7:30 AM July 2nd
Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken.
- Twan Eng Tan
7:30 AM July 1st
