quotes
“ To end on hope: collectively, in what ways do you feel we can effectually repair and improve our humanity ?”
Her response:
Her response:
Make room for each other. I think we live in a world—I don’t think, I know—we live in a world that keeps spaces so narrow, and I think that writing poetry—the arts—is the biggest lane of all. That’s why I love being a poet; th... See more
The problem of too many notebooks
Nikky Finney
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
“The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.”
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
dickens
“For every good idea that comes out of you, you need ten good ideas coming into you. And that’s up to you to ensure that you continuously fill yourself up with fresh knowledge and information and impressions so that one thing can come out.” — René Redzepi
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto
“I am writing a book, but I am not struggling. I am resting also.”
Window into a wondering
Thich Nhat Hanh’s words in The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
via Albert Einstein:
“It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi