Quote for Today: Debasish Mridha
A grand jeté© Fanny Schertzer with CCLicense Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper. ― Debasish Mridha
View ArticleQuote for Today: Pablo Casals
USFWSmidwest with CCLicense The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. —Pablo Casals
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jeanette LeBlanc
Mutability© Katherine McDaniel, 2015 yes, I have feelings and no, I’m not afraid of them not even the shadowy ones that you’d rather ignore i gather them in welcome them home give them space to breathe...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Dave Eggers
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Billie Holiday
© Rose Morelli with CCLicense If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all. ―Billie Holiday
View ArticleQuote for Today: Bangambiki Habyarimana
Body Language © Paolo Fefe People don’t only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don’t say and say what they don’t mean; so listen with your whole...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Glenda Millard
Sometimes words come out of me and I don’t know where they come from or why. They’re like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can’t be stopped. ―Glenda Millard, A...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Austin Grossman
Some days I spent up to three hours in the arcade after school, dimly aware that we were the first people, ever, to be doing these things. We were feeling something they never had – a physical link...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Frederick Douglass
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jacqueline Kelly
“Could anything top the promise and potential of a blank page? What could be more satisfying? Never mind that it would soon be crammed with awkward penmanship, that my handwriting inevitably sloped...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things. ―Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Image: Archers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1935-37
View ArticleQuote for Today: Maya Angelou
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Anish Kapoor
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that’s akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime – terror. —Anish Kapoor Image: Paris, Grand Palais,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. —Aaron Copland Public Domain Image via Pixabay
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mary Ruefle
It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes. ―Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures Public Domain Image via Pixabay
View ArticleQuote for Today: Diane Setterfield
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ―Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale Image: Lonely child...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Fred Rogers
People have said, “Don’t cry” to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, “I’m too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don’t cry.” I’d rather have them say, “Go ahead and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
Levin had often noticed in discussion between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and endless logical subtleties and talk, the disputants finally became aware that what they had...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Augusten Burroughs
I want to write something that means something to someone…that reminds them of what a second, a moment, really is…or that assures them that we are just as lost as they are. I want to write an emotion...
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