May 2017
It's still almost dawn. These hours are as vast as stretches of sky. It's too much, time can't find a way through. Time has stopped passing.
- Marguerite Duras
8:00 AM May 31st
And the future no more than et cetera et cetera . . . but fast and forever.
- Mark Strand
12:30 PM May 30th
Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.
- Susan Sontag
8:30 AM May 30th
Sometimes it breaks my heart
to watch my mind.
Sometimes it breaks my mind
to watch my heart.
- Stephen Levine
8:30 AM May 27th
- Marguerite Duras
8:00 AM May 31st
And the future no more than et cetera et cetera . . . but fast and forever.
- Mark Strand
12:30 PM May 30th
Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.
- Susan Sontag
8:30 AM May 30th
Sometimes it breaks my heart
to watch my mind.
Sometimes it breaks my mind
to watch my heart.
- Stephen Levine
8:30 AM May 27th
Fantasy is like jam. You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing out of which you can't make anything.
- Italo Calvino
9:30 PM May 26th
And then one day one morning you wake up
And realize that you are not like Bukowski
- R. M. Engelhardt
2:30 PM May 25th
Dreamt I visited a large hospital.
No personnel. Everyone was a patient.
In the same dream a newborn girl
who spoke in complete sentences.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:45 AM | May 25th
Dreamt I was supposed to start school but arrived too late.
Everyone in the room was wearing a white mask.
Whoever the teacher was, no one could say.
- Tomas Tranströmer
Dreamt I had drawn piano keys
on my kitchen table. I played on them, mute.
The neighbors came over to listen.
- Tomas Tranströmer
12:00 PM May 23rd
Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?
- Douglas Coupland
8:00 AM May 22nd
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
- Michael Crichton
11:00 AM May 20th
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
- Ernest Dowson
1:00 PM May 19th
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton
8:30 AM May 19th
You're teaching me to live inside the space
between two stanzas and not leave a trace.
You write and write, but oh what you erase!
- Marisa de los Santos
8:30 AM May 18th
A darker storm stands over the world.
It puts its mouth to our soul
and blows to get a tone.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:30 PM May 17th
As Thoreau famously said, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are.
- Pico Iyer
12:12 PM May 17th
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
- Carson McCullers
8:30 AM May 14th
Clouds come
Clouds go
Above the maple leaves
At the waterfall.
- Musō Soseki
12:00 PM May 13th
It takes an extraordinary person to carry themselves as if they do not live in hell.
- D. Bunyavong
12:12 PM May 12th
There are some people that are so negative they can walk into a dark room and begin to develop.
- Les Brown
7:00 AM May 12th
Try to pinpoint the last time you took a purposeless walk through the late spring breeze
- Michael Brendan Dougherty
11:30 AM May 11th
Spring speaks for itself.
Better to go outside
And enjoy the day
Than to sit here
Listening to me.
- Seido Ray Ronci
9:00 AM May 11th
The body tells
its own story:
the wind
in the trees
My bed is a bed,
not a grave.
Sometimes I think we are covered by this thin blanket of time.
- Richard Jackson
8:29 AM May 8th
And now each day seems,
Like my own soul, farther and farther off,
Lost in its light as in a dream in which I meant to ask you something.
- Stanley Plumly
10:00 AM May 7th
There are some people you'll never see again. At least, not in the same way.
- Iain Thomas
7:30 AM May 6th
And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
- Carson McCullers
7:00 AM May 5th
You are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.
- Emilie Autumn
7:35 PM May 4th
I am not what you see and hear.
- David Foster Wallace
7:30 AM May 4th
We are all peculiar, unrepeatable, perambulating micro-universes - we have never been before and we will never be again.
- Caitlin Moran
11:00 AM May 2nd
the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most.
- Caitlin Moran
6:30 AM May 2nd
It's impossible not to remember wild and want it back.
- Mary Oliver
8:30 AM May 1st
