April 2017

They will never be able to make you again. Don't you dare waste a second of it thinking something better will happen when it ends. Don't you dare.
 - Caitlin Moran
8:00 AM April 30th


I can tell there's going to be a blizzard
of being somewhere else
any minute
 - Jack Myers
5:30 PM April 28th

Some conversations are not about what they're about.
 - Anne Carson
7:30 AM April 28th


I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things
- Richard Feynman
7:00 AM April 27th


to be completely alive every moment
in spite of the inevitable.
 - Charles Bukowski
9:00 AM April 26th


It is words that are to blame. They are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things.
 - Virginia Woolf
8:30 AM April 24th


With dewdrops dripping,
I wish somehow I could wash
this perishing world
 - Basho
9:00 AM April 23rd


The fact is that we need the insights of the mystic every bit as much as we need the insights of the scientist. Mankind is diminished when either is missing.
 - Michael Crichton
9:30 AM April 22nd


Sometimes already my heart is a red parrot, perched
among strange, dark trees, flapping and screaming.
 - Mary Oliver
12:30 PM April 21st


The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
 - Jostein Gaarder
8:00 AM April 21st


You want to hold out for those things only you could say.
 - James Dickey
8:29 AM April 20th


This poem is asleep.
I don't want you yelling at it, waking it up.
Let it dream.
 - Frank Stanford
6:30 AM April 18th

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
 - Brad Meltzer
8:30 AM April 17th


The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
8:00 AM April 16th


The way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
 - Wallace Stevens
3:00 PM April 15th

A person may make an effort to relax but 'making an effort to relax' is self-evidently absurd.
 - Richard Sylvester
7:30 AM April 15th


Through you I go back to the origin of the sign, to the free writing sketched by the wind on the sea and the sand, to the wild writing of the birds.
 - Marguerite Duras
2:39 PM  |  April 14th


This is one moment,
But know that another
Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
 - T. S. Eliot
8:00 AM April 14th

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
 - Oscar Wilde
8:00 PM April 13th


There's an anecdote about Kierkegaard standing rapt in thought in a municipal flower bed. An irascible park keeper arrived and demanded to know what he was doing there. "What are any of us doing here?" replied the sage.
 - Alan Fletcher
8:30 AM  |  April 13th


The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
 - Jim Harrison
8:00 AM April 11th


We all think we're one kind of person when we're somewhat different (especially viewed by others) than we imagine we are. You - the reader - no doubt feel you're an exception.
 - Alan Fletcher
8:00 AM April 10th


Human beings are all right for as long as they are ignorant of ignorance; this is our normal condition. But when we know we don't know, we can't stand it.
 - Lewis Thomas
1:30 PM April 9th


An earthquake, a toothache, a mad dog, a telephone message -
and all our house of peace falls like a pack of cards.
 - Reginald Horace Blyth
7:30 AM April 7th

What are we?
Young or new?
We must be something.
 - Robert Frost
8:30 AM April 6th

Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver.
- Elizabeth Alexander
10:00 AM April 5th


The road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
- J.R.R.Tolkien
7:30 AM April 5th

spellbound by our own imperfect lives
because they are lives,
and because they are ours.
- Robyn Sarah
7:00 AM April 3rd


What is human existence? It turns out it's pretty simple:
We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.
  - Michelle Thaller
8:33 AM April 2nd


This is what growing old is -
what we learn is more than we ever
wanted to learn about things
we wish we'd never heard of.
- Cynthia Zarin
9:00 AM April 1st