January 2020
Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
- Bruce Mau
8:00 AM Jan 31st
I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.
- Joy Harjo
8:00 AM Jan 30th
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
- Philip Larkin
8:00 AM Jan 29th
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.
- Arundhati Roy
9:00 AM Jan 26th
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
- William S. Burroughs
8:00 AM Jan 23rd
Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.
- Osip Mandelstam
8:30 AM Jan 22nd
You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you're coming out the other side.
- Chinese proverb
8:00 AM Jan 21st
I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength.
- Osip Mandelstam
9:00 AM Jan 20th
A clown on a throne is still a clown.
- C. JoyBell C.
9:00 AM Jan 18th
and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless
- Adam Zagajewski
9:00 AM Jan 16th
Who defined me?
I am a unique culture of one, from everywhere. I am her map and her self. I am everyone in the story; I am the story.
- Alice Notley
5:30 PM Jan 15th
Loneliness makes you consider other people's lives, makes you more polite to those you deal with in passing, dampens irony and cynicism.
- Nicholson Baker
8:00 AM Jan 15th
We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
- E. M. Forster
3:00 AM Jan 14th
Life properly perceived is alien, foreign, utterly strange. If life seems familiar you're afflicted with lazy brain.
- Jim Harrison
8:00 AM Jan 13th
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
- Lily Tomlin
9:00 AM Jan 12th
What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle - in the 'what ought to be.'
- Osip Mandelstam
9:00 AM Jan 11th
Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read.
- Raymond Carver
9:00 AM Jan 10th
Thought has a funny way of trying to step outside of itself, out of the moment, even out of the body, as if it were an independent, disembodied observer and commentator on the passing scene.
- Barry Magid
8:00 AM Jan 9th
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- Confucius
7:30 AM Jan 6th
That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?"
- Mary Oliver
8:30 AM Jan 4th
I don't deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
- G. K. Chesterton
8:15 AM Jan 3rd
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
8:30 AM Jan 2nd
Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
- Walker Percy
8:30 AM Jan 1st
- Bruce Mau
8:00 AM Jan 31st
I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.
- Joy Harjo
8:00 AM Jan 30th
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
- Philip Larkin
8:00 AM Jan 29th
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.
- Arundhati Roy
9:00 AM Jan 26th
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
- William S. Burroughs
8:00 AM Jan 23rd
Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.
- Osip Mandelstam
8:30 AM Jan 22nd
You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you're coming out the other side.
- Chinese proverb
8:00 AM Jan 21st
I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength.
- Osip Mandelstam
9:00 AM Jan 20th
A clown on a throne is still a clown.
- C. JoyBell C.
9:00 AM Jan 18th
and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless
- Adam Zagajewski
9:00 AM Jan 16th
Who defined me?
I am a unique culture of one, from everywhere. I am her map and her self. I am everyone in the story; I am the story.
- Alice Notley
5:30 PM Jan 15th
Loneliness makes you consider other people's lives, makes you more polite to those you deal with in passing, dampens irony and cynicism.
- Nicholson Baker
8:00 AM Jan 15th
We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
- E. M. Forster
3:00 AM Jan 14th
Life properly perceived is alien, foreign, utterly strange. If life seems familiar you're afflicted with lazy brain.
- Jim Harrison
8:00 AM Jan 13th
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
- Lily Tomlin
9:00 AM Jan 12th
What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle - in the 'what ought to be.'
- Osip Mandelstam
9:00 AM Jan 11th
Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read.
- Raymond Carver
9:00 AM Jan 10th
Thought has a funny way of trying to step outside of itself, out of the moment, even out of the body, as if it were an independent, disembodied observer and commentator on the passing scene.
- Barry Magid
8:00 AM Jan 9th
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- Confucius
7:30 AM Jan 6th
That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?"
- Mary Oliver
8:30 AM Jan 4th
I don't deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
- G. K. Chesterton
8:15 AM Jan 3rd
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
8:30 AM Jan 2nd
Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
- Walker Percy
8:30 AM Jan 1st
