Thursday

October 2015

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
 - Robert Brault
6:55 PM Oct 31st
If you blur your eyes, the streetlights become hundreds of ghosts going home.
 - Iain Thomas
7:00 AM Oct 30th
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
 - Leonard Michaels
6:30 AM Oct 29th


We think that words have little power and a short life, that somehow they evaporate with the breath that speaks them. 
 - Hsu Yun
5:30 AM Oct 29th
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
 - Henry Miller
1:00 PM Oct 28th
a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand.
- E. E. Cummings
8:30 AM Oct 28th


Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonize.
 - George Eliot
At twilight we come to the old inn
on the hillside: it's getting cold,
we stop for wine, notice
the dead leaves blowing around the garden
behind the bar.
 - Sandra Gilbert
We all know that each day that dawns is the first for some and will be the last for others, and that for most people it will be just another day.
 - José Saramago
Love has as few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
 - Franz Kafka
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
 - Sharon Salzberg
The normal is that which nobody quite is.
 - Robert Anton Wilson
I desire therefore I exist.
 - Angela Carter
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
 - Gayle Forman
Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
 - Franz Kafka
The various thoughts which arise in our minds are nothing but the scenery of the Life of the Self.
 - Uchiyama Kosho
To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task, tremendous and foolish and human.
 - Louise Erdrich

We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
 - Angela Carter
From now on you are nothing,
a ghost sighing at the window,
a voice singing under water.
 - Dorothy Walters
The windows,
the starving windows
that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
 - Anne Sexton
I will always enjoy the grey solemn solitude of this season that grows darker and colder, day by day.
 - Henry Rollins
we were like two leaves falling from a tree, touching each other now and again as they spiraled to the forest floor.
 - Tan Twan Eng


 I will never love you more than at this moment, here in October, the new rain rising slowly from the river.
 - Stanley Plumly
I don't know what you're feeling. I won't even pretend.
 - Jeffrey Eugenides
late autumn made a fire in us;
the cosmos waited for a sign;
the soul was waiting for the mind
 - Brenda Hillman
It's only in the Autumn where I can take breaths that make me want to take more breaths.
 - Henry Rollins
Smile at a stranger today. We’re all just animals awake to ourselves and for some people that’s a lot to deal with.
 - Elisabeth Hewer
Two stars in the trees to the west,
are snared, and an owl's soft cry
runs like a breath through the forest.
 - Randall Jarrell
This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too? - this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish.
 - David Foster Wallace
Only a single bird

 is singing.

 The air is cloning it.

 We hear through mirrors.
 - Federico García Lorca
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
 - Patrick Ness
The world is the same as it always was,
full of shadows and anticipation.
 - Adam Zagajewski
By now I've completely tasted sorrow, but already
I do not want to speak about it.
I only say: what a beautiful, cold autumn.
 - Xing Qijia
These days are songs, noon air
that flows like warm honey, the maple trees' glissando
of fat buttery leaves.
 - Barbara Crooker
12:15 PM Oct 8th


I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
 - James A. Michener
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, 
and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
 - Alan Watts
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
 - Maya Angelou
The life of this world is wind
Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.
All that we look on is windfall.
All we remember is wind.
 - Charles Wright
How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?
- Charles Wright
1:00 PM Oct 4th
Everything hinges on how you look at things.
 - Henry Miller
9:09 AM Oct 4th
How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
 - Jane Hirshfield
9:00 AM Oct 3rd
Love, I'm pretty sure, is light.
 - Jan Zwicky
12:00 PM Oct 2nd
Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
 - Angela Carter
7:30 AM Oct 2nd
October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.
 - Angela Carter
12:13 PM Oct 1st
Music is the noiseless sound made by the swimmer in the ocean of consciousness.
 - Henry Miller
8:15 AM Oct 1st