Tough day to find that little shred of something to start with. Luckily I got this amazing little book in a pile of “Take These! Free!” books at the library last week – the suede (aka fuzzy cover) edition of … Continue reading →
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt
Footnote 151.22 re Sappho (From William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, Edited by Robert Pinsky) This is a translation of Sappho’s Fragment 71. When it was published in Poems in Folio (1957), Williams included this note: I am 73 years old. … Continue reading →
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’ — Vincent van Gogh Continue reading →
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world. — Inscription from a church in Sussex, England, 1730
If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.
