May 2021

What a queer gamble our existence is.
 - Iris Murdoch
8:30 AM May 28th

My heart is so giant this evening,
like one of those moons so full
and beautiful and terrifying
if you see it when you're getting out
of the car you have to go inside the house
and make someone else come out
and see it for themselves.
 - Carrie Fountain
8:00 AM May 26th

A breath
can uncoil as you walk across your own muddy yard,
the big dipper pouring night down over you, and everything
you dread, all you can't bear, dissolves
and, like a needle slipped into your vein -
that sudden rush of the world.
 - Ellen Bass
5:00 PM May 23rd

The me sitting here and the image of me I have are out of sync.
 - Haruki Murakami
8:45 AM May 22nd

I've written about all of this before
as have others before me before all of us
but the day is near when there shall be no difference
between my saying everything in just a couple words
and nothing in all of them
 - Jaan Kaplinski
7:00 AM May 20th

to the big old house of our dreams
where each of us lives, together
or singly, with our work which is not
labor, but fun, with our needs, our desires,
gardens to till and tend as we will,
people to get to know and to love as we wish.
 - Peter Sansom
8:30 AM May 19th

I used to wonder why the sea was blue at a distance and green up close and colorless for that matter in your hands. A lot of life is like that. A lot of life is just a matter of learning to like blue.
 - Miriam Pollard
12:00 PM May 18th

Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
 - Zadie Smith
7:30 AM May 17th

Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
 - Charles Bukowski
8:30 AM May 16th

I know how difficult it is,
always balancing and weighing,
it takes years and many transformations;
and always another loss to stop for,
to send you backwards.

Why do you worry so,
when none of us is spared?
 - Jill Bialosky
7:30 AM May 14th

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
 - Victor Hugo
8:30 AM May 13th

What is wanted is not the will-to-believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
 - Bertrand Russell
11:11 AM May 12th

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
- Mignon McLaughlin
11:30 AM May 11th

Above all, don't give in to distracted or malicious or angry monologues. Eliminate the exclamation points. Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness.
 - Elena Ferrante
9:00 AM May 10th

Now has come, an easy time. I let it
roll. There is a lake somewhere
so blue and far nobody owns it.
A wind comes by and a willow listens
gracefully.
 - William Stafford
4:00 PM May 7th

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.
 - Niall Williams
1:00 PM May 6th

Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.
 - Gary Snyder
9:20 AM May 5th

when summer was still a word plump and generous and there was actual sunshine and time was impossibly deliciously luxuriously long and the idea of summer stretched out ahead so that now as you entered it you could not imagine it ever ending.
 - Niall Williams
12:00 PM May 4th

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
 - Lao Tsu
9:00 AM May 3rd