April 2016
We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.
- Eduardo Galeano
8:45 AM April 30th
You are at once an outsider to the present and an insider of the past. Or perhaps the other way round.
- Kapka Kassabova
8:00 AM April 29th
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
9:00 AM April 28th
I am so grateful
that the universe is vast and impossible
and so wild that anything can happen
- Ashe Vernon
3:00 PM April 27th
- Eduardo Galeano
8:45 AM April 30th
You are at once an outsider to the present and an insider of the past. Or perhaps the other way round.
- Kapka Kassabova
8:00 AM April 29th
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
9:00 AM April 28th
I am so grateful
that the universe is vast and impossible
and so wild that anything can happen
- Ashe Vernon
3:00 PM April 27th
My spirit, outside of nature, like slow mist in the trees,
Looking for somewhere to dissipate.
- Charles Wright
8:00 AM April 27th
beyond the window
day after day the same dark river
turns slowly through the hills
- Dana Gioia
8:00 AM April 27th
The world is certainty a sudden place.
- Carson McCullers
Philosophy is best undertaken dancing, with joyous bodily affirmation, with revelry and delight.
- Elizabeth Grosz
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished.
- Carson McCullers
Though I lack the art to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written.
- Stanley Kunitz
We descend into solitude step by step
further and further down stanzas of verses
into depths never expected
- Anna Kamieńska
There are moments when I feel the universe expand.
- Vera Pavlova
Something in the blood-chemistry of life,
Unspeakable, impressive, undeterred,
Expresses itself without needing a word
- Eavan Boland
The marvel of consciousness - that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.
- Vladimir Nabokov
One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.
- Jaggi Vasudev
Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has its own intelligence. The brain is sitting in your head, but mind is all over the place.
- Jaggi Vasudev
I have become so used to being me
that I have become an assistant professor of myself.
- Billy Collins
The thinking is what the poem makes possible, suddenly, and all too briefly.
- George Quasha
Is there really a person who experiences something outside itself, or is there only experiencing wherein the person is the experience?
- Wu Hsin
The past is an empty cafe terrace.
An airless dusk before thunder.
A man running.
And no way to know what happened then -
none at all - unless, of course, you improvise
- Eavan Boland
Nature's wastefulness seems quietly obscene.
It's been doing that all week:
making beauty,
and throwing it away,
and making more.
- Tony Hoagland
Oh, the mind is eely, slipping
out of its puzzle boxes,
loving its own wit.
- Gregory Djanikian
I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing
- D. H. Lawrence
A spring day too loud for talk
when bones tire of their flesh
and want something better.
- Jim Harrison
All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life, where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
- Miranda July
Memory is cumulative selection.
It's an undersea cable connecting one continent
to another,
electric in the black brine of distance.
- Anne Michaels
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.
- Franz Kafka
I felt I was about to enter a place that existed only in the overlapping of air and water, light and time.
- Twan Eng Tan
Turn sideways into the light as they say
the old ones did and disappear
into the originality of it all.
- David Whyte
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
- Marcel Proust
I am feeling the martyrdom of an untimely sensuality.
- Clarice Lispector
Places in us
old light still slants through to.
Places that no longer exist but are full of feeling,
like phantom limbs.
- Anne Michaels
Be bad. Be wicked. And you should worry. But don't.
- Helen Oyeyemi
