July 2019

trees fifty, a hundred years old
out there,
heavy clouds on the way
and the lawn steaming like a horse
in the early morning.
 - Billy Collins
7:07 AM July 29th


If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
 - Paul Auster
6:30 AM July 26th


By day, a mysterious wood, near the town,
breathes out cherry, a cherry perfume.
By night, on July’s sky, deep, and transparent,
new constellations are thrown.
 - Anna Akhmatova
1:30 PM July 25th


99 percent of every beautiful thing you ever knew escaped and went back out into the world where you vaguely remembered it.
 - Ron Padgett
7:31 AM July 25th


We are here on earth to do good for others.
What the others are here for, I don't know.
 - John Foster Hall
7:00 AM July 24th

You are like you are because you tell yourself that you are that way.
 - Carlos Castaneda
5:30 PM July 23rd


The grace of impermanence is that we belong to everything, that we are not separated from anything, that we are not isolated. We may be waves on an ocean, but we are waves that know we are waves.
 - Sallie Tisdale
7:30 AM July 23rd


Imagine knowing that you're good at something, so good that the world would be in awe of you if they could see your work, and then keeping yourself a secret from the world.
 - Paul Auster
12:00 PM July 22nd


sit by the river
keep pitching
your troubles in it
watch them
float away
with the current
too light
to drown
 - Vera Pavlova
7:30 AM July 21st


I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.
 - Ilyas Kassam
7:15 AM July 19th


"Haven't you heard of the music of the spheres?" asked the dragon. "It's the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I'm a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful."
 - Ted Hughes
8:30 AM July 17th


People change. Sometimes at night, curtains drawn,
they turn infinite upon each other, just for fun.
 - Dan Chiasson
7:00 AM July 15th


The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: 
"Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."
  - John P. Wiley Jr.
 (quoting Edward R. Harrison)
8:00 AM July 14th


Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
 - Kurt Vonnegut
7:00 AM July 12th


When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.
 - Robert Adams
8:00 AM July 11th


Life would be so much easier if we just had the source code.
 - Oscar Migueis
8:00 AM July 10th


Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that used to be the privilege of the gods.
 - Ted Hughes
8:30 AM July 9th


Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real.
Perhaps they are.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
8:00 AM July 8th


Scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.
 - Jorge Luis Borges
5:00 PM July 7th


And that's how we measure out our real respect for people - by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate - and enjoy.
 - Ted Hughes
9:30 AM July 5th


Ordinary life: the plenty and thick of it. Knots tying threads to everywhere. The past pushed away, the future left unimagined for the sake of the glorious, difficult, passionate present.
 - Lisel Mueller
9:00 AM July 3rd


What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
 - Ted Hughes
8:00 AM July 1st