FRANK SINATRA: LOUIS ARMSTRONG makes me feel humble in his presence. He became a legend in his lifetime because he had the skill of a true artist, the strength of a demon and the heart of a lion. I have know him in moments of glory and adversity and he has never changed.
BE A FRIEND TO YOURSELF. If you are a true friend to yourself, you can be a true friend to a loved one. A romantic crush is short-lived but friendship and loving kindness can last very long and continue to grow. THICH NHAT HANH
FOOTBALL, beer and above all gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. to keep them in control was not difficult. GEORGE ORWELL
UNDERSTAND ME. I’M NOT LIKE AN ORDINARY WORLD. I HAVE MY MADNESS, I LIVE IN ANOTHER DIMENSION AND I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THINGS THAT HAVE NO SOUL.
AN INTELLECTUAL says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. CHARLES BUKOWSKI
ONLY BY LOVE IS LIFE MADE REAL.
MY SOUL IS A BROKEN FIELD — PLOWED BY PAIN.
NO ONE WORTH POSSESSING CAN BE QUITE POSSESSED.
TIME IS A KIND FRIEND — HE WILL MAKE US OLD.
WISDOM IS NOT ACQUIRED SAVE AS THE RESULT OF INVESTIGATION.
I FOUND MORE JOY IN SORROW THAN YOU COULD FIND IN JOY.
SARA TEASDALE. 1884-1933-“The Kiss”
RECENTLY I learned about a term called a “glimmer” which is the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers are any moments in your day that bring you joy, happiness, peace, gratitude or love making you feel good. the more you look out for them, the more you’ll notice and the fewer triggers you’ll encounter. We tend to see what we actively seek. LULU TREVENA
HOW FAR THAT LITTLE CANDLE THROWS ITS BEAMS! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
NICHOLSON BAKER 1957—“The Mezzanine” “Vox” “House of Holes”.
YOU CAN TELL IT’S A POEM because it’s swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it’s a poem.
MANY GOOD POETS ARE REALLY ESSAYISTS WHO WRITE VERY SHORT ESSAYS.
MOST GOOD NOVELISTS HAVE BEEN WOMEN OR HOMOSEXUALS.
THE QUESTION any novel is really trying to answer is, is life worth living?
CHURCHILL was a brilliant & inspiring rhetorician but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation was to put German jews in jail.
YOU NEED THE ART IN ORDER TO LOVE LIFE.
UPDIKE was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
THE JOB OF THE NOVEL is to be true to the confusion.
POETRY IS PROSE IN SLOW MOTION.
THE FUNCTION OF A GREAT LIBRARY IS TO STORE OBSCURE BOOKS.
CHARLES BEAUDELAIRE 1821-1867 French Poet “Les Fleurs du Mal”
THE BEAUTIFUL IS ALWAYS BIZARRE.
YOU HAVE TO BE ALWAYS DRUNK. That’s all there is to it — it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
HOWARD THURMAN 1899-1981 “THE JOURNEY WITHIN” Disciples of the Spirit”
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME ALIVE.
FATE is the raw materials of experience.They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
OFTEN to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one’s own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
DURING times of war hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
BEVERLY CLEARY 1916-2001. “The Mouse & the Motorcycle””Ramona the Pest”
THAT LITTLE GIRL, who has remained with me, prevents me from writing down to children, from poking fun at my characters and from writing an adult reminiscence about childhood instead of a book to be enjoyed by children.
NOTHING in the world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
AS A CHILD, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
PROBLEM SOLVING, and I don’t mean Algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
I READ MY BOOKS ALOUD BEFORE THEY WERE PUBLISHED.
I DON’T necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section pf the library.