October 2022

I was angry at the ghost for months, would shout at it to stop trying to scare me. Now I understand it's just lonely.
 - Sarah Manguso
3:00 PM Oct 27th

Nobody plans to be a ghost.
 - Jane Hirshfield
1:15 PM Oct 26th

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
 - Jeanette Winterson
12:15 PM Oct 25th

Worry is impatience for the next horror.
 - Sarah Manguso
1:15 PM Oct 24th

How many ghosts pass through one's own body at any one time? How many wi-fi signals? How many time travellers?
 - Simon Sellars
3:15 PM Oct 22nd

Seeing the moonlight
spilling down
through these trees,
my heart fills to the brim
with autumn.
 - Ono No Komachi
12:30 PM Oct 21st

Insight roams the sea of the unconscious like the Loch Ness monster, a rumor whose wake occasionally becomes visible, but even then it's mystifying and scarcely believed.
 - Diane Ackerman
9:00 AM Oct 20th

Telling the truth seems risky in the short term, but builds something in the long term. Telling lies seems safe in the short term, but destroys everything in the long term.
 - Maxime Lagacé
8:45 AM Oct 19th

I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.
 - Esperanza Spalding
12:00 PM Oct 18th

Once in awhile it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
 - Alan Keightley
12:30 PM Oct 17th

A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.
 - Bertolt Brecht
10:00 AM Oct 15th

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
 - William Stafford
12:30 PM Oct 14th

When you step into sacred time, you're actually moving sideways into a different space that's inside the normal world. It's folded in. Do you see?
 - Elizabeth Hand
12:00 PM Oct 12th

Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to load.
 - Ted Kooser
1:30 PM Oct 11th

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
 - Clarice Lispector
8:30 AM Oct 10th

As the crickets' soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees
as they are
to the rocks and the hills
 - Gary Snyder
9:00 AM Oct 9th

Why not just try to settle in, take your place, however undeserved, among the fortunate? Why not trust that almost everyone, even in his own house, is a troubled guest?
 - Stephen Dunn
1:30 PM Oct 7th

What kind of world is this if a madman tells you you must be ashamed of yourselves!
 - Tonino Guerra and Andrei Tarkovsky
1:45 PM Oct 6th

Our role is to widen the field of discussion, not to set limits in accord with the prevailing authority.
 - Edward W. Said
12:30 PM Oct 4th

We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face.
 - G. K. Chesterton
1:15 PM Oct 3rd