August 2020
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
- Arundhati Roy
8:30 AM August 31st
not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours.
- A. R. Ammons
12:30 PM August 28th
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.
- Nayyirah Waheed
5:00 PM August 27th
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
- Henry Miller
8:00 AM August 26th
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
- William Faulkner
8:25 AM August 25th
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
- John Berger
1:30 PM August 21st
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas Huxley
9:00 AM August 19th
After writing poems all day,
I go off to see the moon in the pines.
Far in the woods I sit down against a pine.
The moon has her porches turned to face the light,
But the deep part of her house is in the darkness.
- Robert Bly
4:30 PM August 18th
The air, dazzling as sand, grew dense
with light: bougainvillea spilled
over the salmon walls, the road
veered into the ravine. The world
could be those colors, the mangoes,
the melons, the avocado evenings
releasing their circles of moon.
- Nina Bogin
7:00 PM August 16th
As you sit on the hillside,
or lie prone under the trees of the forest,
or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream,
the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
- Stephen Graham
8:30 AM August 15th
So I sit on the edge, wagging my feet above
the abyss. Tonight the moon will be in my lap.
This is my job, to study the universe
from my bridge.
- Jim Harrison
12:30 PM August 14th
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings, by satisfying our own egos.
- Kenneth Clark
8:30 AM August 13th
A few fireflies punctuate the night's black text,
and the moonlight is so thick, you could swim in it
until you reach the other side.
- Barbara Crooker
6:00 PM August 10th
I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly.
- Ted Kooser
8:00 AM August 10th
This is a mournful discovery.
1.) Those who agree with you are insane.
2.) Those who do not agree with you are in power.
- Philip K. Dick
8:00 AM August 7th
It is here where my mind begins to learn
my heart's language on this endless
wobbly path, veering south and north
informed by my all-too-vivid dreams
which are a compass without a needle.
- Jim Harrison
8:00 AM August 6th
If the devil doesn't exist how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
- Wendell Berry
8:05 AM August 5th
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
- Joyce Carol Oates
8:00 AM August 4th
Night doesn't fall,
but rather, all the disregarded shadows of a day
flock like blackbirds, and suddenly rise.
- Stuart Dybek
4:30 PM August 3rd
You know what I've come to realize about you kindly rich liberals who own the world? Nothing is further from your understanding than the nature of reality.
- Philip Roth
8:00 AM August 3rd
Every once and a while, take off your life, and rest.
- Nayyirah Waheed
8:00 AM August 2nd
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
9:00 AM August 1st
- Arundhati Roy
8:30 AM August 31st
not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours.
- A. R. Ammons
12:30 PM August 28th
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.
- Nayyirah Waheed
5:00 PM August 27th
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
- Henry Miller
8:00 AM August 26th
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
- William Faulkner
8:25 AM August 25th
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
- John Berger
1:30 PM August 21st
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas Huxley
9:00 AM August 19th
After writing poems all day,
I go off to see the moon in the pines.
Far in the woods I sit down against a pine.
The moon has her porches turned to face the light,
But the deep part of her house is in the darkness.
- Robert Bly
4:30 PM August 18th
The air, dazzling as sand, grew dense
with light: bougainvillea spilled
over the salmon walls, the road
veered into the ravine. The world
could be those colors, the mangoes,
the melons, the avocado evenings
releasing their circles of moon.
- Nina Bogin
7:00 PM August 16th
As you sit on the hillside,
or lie prone under the trees of the forest,
or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream,
the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
- Stephen Graham
8:30 AM August 15th
So I sit on the edge, wagging my feet above
the abyss. Tonight the moon will be in my lap.
This is my job, to study the universe
from my bridge.
- Jim Harrison
12:30 PM August 14th
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings, by satisfying our own egos.
- Kenneth Clark
8:30 AM August 13th
A few fireflies punctuate the night's black text,
and the moonlight is so thick, you could swim in it
until you reach the other side.
- Barbara Crooker
6:00 PM August 10th
I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly.
- Ted Kooser
8:00 AM August 10th
This is a mournful discovery.
1.) Those who agree with you are insane.
2.) Those who do not agree with you are in power.
- Philip K. Dick
8:00 AM August 7th
It is here where my mind begins to learn
my heart's language on this endless
wobbly path, veering south and north
informed by my all-too-vivid dreams
which are a compass without a needle.
- Jim Harrison
8:00 AM August 6th
If the devil doesn't exist how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
- Wendell Berry
8:05 AM August 5th
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
- Joyce Carol Oates
8:00 AM August 4th
Night doesn't fall,
but rather, all the disregarded shadows of a day
flock like blackbirds, and suddenly rise.
- Stuart Dybek
4:30 PM August 3rd
You know what I've come to realize about you kindly rich liberals who own the world? Nothing is further from your understanding than the nature of reality.
- Philip Roth
8:00 AM August 3rd
Every once and a while, take off your life, and rest.
- Nayyirah Waheed
8:00 AM August 2nd
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
9:00 AM August 1st
