10/31/07

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you. -Virgil

10/30/07

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. -Ernest Hemingway

10/29/07

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. -A.A. Milne

10/26/07

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. -Ursula K. Le Guin

10/25/07

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

10/24/07

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. -Leonard Cohen

10/23/07

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. -W. E. B. Du Bois

10/22/07

Words ... are innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, defining that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos... They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. -Tom Stoppard

10/19/07

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. -Nikos Kazantzakis

10/18/07

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. -Anton Chekhov

10/15/07

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. -Irving Berlin

10/10/07

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. -William Wordsworth

10/09/07

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. -Orson Scott Card

10/04/07

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. -John Jakes

10/02/07

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? -Friedrich Nietzsche