Thursday

November 2017

Fortunately art is a community effort – a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
 - Allen Ginsberg
12:30 PM Nov 30th


Every art is a window into a world that only art can access. You can’t define these worlds. They are epiphanies, visions.
 - Etel Adnan
8:00 AM Nov 30th


and who is
grinning madly at the
thought of this
wonderful
new
day
 - Charles Bukowski

8:00 AM Nov 29th


Artists, as far as I can gather, have set out, however unconsciously, to prove one of two things: either that they are mad in a sane world, or that they are sane in a mad world.
 - Dylan Thomas
4:00 AM Nov 28th


These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary - how am I to resolve them?
 - Richard Flanagan
8:00 AM Nov 27th


Who doesn't at times feel like an exception to all general rules?
 - Jim Harrison
10:45 AM Nov 26th


Behold the marvelous power of your intellect: it enables you to know (and not merely guess) the truth about all kinds of things you have never specifically checked.
 - Michael Augros
11:45 AM Nov 25th


And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind.
 - Jack Kerouac
1:00 PM Nov 24th


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11:00 AM Nov 23rd


You have happiness within you: that is the safest, if not the only, way of having it.
 - Marcel Proust
8:30 AM Nov 23rd


The rhythmic shushing
of your feet through fallen leaves should be
enough to quiet the mind.
 - Jeffrey Harrison
8:00 AM Nov 22nd


A solitary
crow on a bare branch -
autumn evening
 - Basho
2:30 PM Nov 21st


the moment just before you forgot what it was you were about to say, it was like that, and after that, it was still like that, only all the time.
 - Marie Howe
8:00 AM Nov 20th


I know I'm not myself with people . . . But am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely too.
 - Susan Sontag
2:30 PM Nov 18th


The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
 - George Bernard Shaw
10:15 AM Nov 17th


Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.
 - Steven Pressfield
11:30 AM Nov 16th


only now do I see
that the air is full
of small sharp stars
pinwheeling through
every living thing
that gets in their way.
 - Sharon Bryan
8:00 AM Nov 16th


There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have begun asking why there was nothing.
 - Jostein Gaarder
8:00 AM Nov 15th


Is how we live or try to live supposed to embellish us?
  - C. K. Williams
1:30 PM Nov 13th


When we remember our former selves, there is always the little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of an impeccably narrowing corridor.
 - Vladimir Nabokov
8:30 AM Nov 13th


still
I watch the twilight
settle in
giddy with
the exuberance
of introversion
 - Nils Peterson
4:00 PM Nov 12th


It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
 - Ray Bradbury
1:00 PM Nov 10th


Most nights I rushed out into the evening
without paying attention to the trees,
whose names I didn't know,
or the birds, which flew heedlessly on.
 - Edward Hirsch
8:30 AM Nov 10th


And so we live, torn between brief explosions of meaning and patient wandering through the plains of ordinary days.
 - Adam Zagajewski
7:30 AM Nov 8th


Music reminds us what love is. If you've forgotten what love is, go listen to music.
 - Adam Zagajewski
12:00 PM Nov 7th


It's not true that life is one damn thing after another, it's one damn thing over and over.
 - Edna St. Vincent Millay
7:30 AM Nov 7th


So let us go on

though the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.
 - Mary Oliver
7:45 AM Nov 6th


The world is empty and incomprehensible, yet we still have to believe in it.
 - Elisabeth Rynell
3:30 PM Nov 5th


then the voice in my head said Whether you love what you love or live in divided ceaseless revolt against it, what you love is your fate.
 - Frank Bidart
1:30 PM Nov 4th


Do you think you are the only one who wants something else? Another life?
 - Zadie Smith
8:00 AM Nov 3rd


It all reminds me of that moment when you take off your sunglasses
after a long drive and realize it's earlier
and lighter out than you had accounted for.
 - David Berman
1:00 PM Nov 2nd


we are all
the dead, I am not apart from you,
for long, except for breath, except for everything.
 - Sharon Olds
8:30 AM Nov 2nd