March 2022

One does not see with the eyes; one sees with the brain, which has dozens of different systems for analyzing the input from the eyes.
 - Oliver Sacks
11:30 AM March 31st

I've traveled
That dark path to the world
Which comes down from this mountain
Just to see you
One last time.
 - Ono no Komachi

5:00 PM March 30th

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
 - G. K. Chesterton
11:30 AM March 30th

I keep wanting to deserve grace,
which makes no sense, I know.
Bows in her hair, smoke in her eyes,
the first girl I loved existed only in a song.
I want the other ark, the one with unicorns,
yeti, two cyclopses gazing into each other’s eye.
 - Tom Hunley
1:30 PM March 29th

May you turn
stone, my daughter,
into silk. May you make men better
than they are.
 - Stephen Dunn
1:30 PM March 28th

Really to know is to know also that you know, and know that those who know, know, and that those who don't know, don't know. In other words, your knowing is tested by your ability to distinguish between those who know and those who are only pretending, or deceiving themselves.
 - R. H. Blyth
12:30 PM March 25th

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
 - G. K. Chesterton
6:36 PM March 24th

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
 - G. K. Chesterton
5:30 PM March 23rd

Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.
 - Howard Zinn
5:05 PM March 22nd

If you look at your watch, realize you still don't know the time, and look again, were you strictly speaking awake the first time you looked?
 - Robert Anton Wilson
9:30 AM March 21st

Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.
 - Robert Anton Wilson
12:00 PM March 18th

This is where I get self-conscious about language,
words are love-affairs or séances or harpoons, there isn't a sentence
that isn't a plea.

This is where I don't care that I'm half wrong when I say everything
is made entirely of light.
 - Bob Hicok
12:45 PM March 16th

That a portal exists in my wall that even its makers can't govern seems an accurate mirror of life.
 - Bob Hicok
1:00 PM March 15th

I thought my dance alone through worlds of
odd and eccentric planets that no one else knew
would sustain me. I mean
I did learn to move
after all
 - Joy Harjo
1:00 PM March 14th

One day he just found himself opening the door, allowing the inevitable. The world came in and filled the room. It seemed so familiar with everything.
 - Stephen Dunn
10:00 AM March 10th

Is it possible that mankind has had thousands of years in which to observe, reflect, and record, and has allowed these millennia to slip past, like a recess interval at school in which one eats one's sandwich and an apple? Yes, it is possible.
 - Rainer Maria Rilke
12:30 PM March 7th

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
 - Viktor E. Frankl
12:00 PM March 4th

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
 - Eric Hoffer
12:30 PM March 3rd

You have to stop to change direction.
 - Erich Fromm
12:00 PM March 2nd

Difficult, after a while, to love one's own - its inconsistencies, the classic diminutions, the terror of having only one. But if bodies had epitaphs, I'd want mine to read: It rattled its cage. It wouldn't be appeased.
 - Stephen Dunn
4:45 PM March 1st