TODAY IS NATIONAL PEPPERONI PIZZA DAY.
I BELIEVE WE SHOULD ALL LIVE WITHOUT HATE IF WE CAN.
ROGER WHITTAKER
CASS ELLIOT: IT’S TRUE, I DID GET HIT IN THE HEAD BY A PIPE THAT FELL down and my range was increased by three notes. They were tearing this club apart in the islands, revamping it, putting in a dance floor. workmen dropped a thin metal plumbing pipe and it hit me on the head and knocked me to the ground. I had a concussion and went to the hospital. I had a bad headache for about two weeks and all of a sudden I was singing higher. It’s true. wikipedia
DONALD HALL 1928-2018. “Ox-Cart Man” “Essays After 80”.
WE LEARNED HOW TO LOVE EACH OTHER BY LOVING TOGETHER GOOD THINGS WHOLLY OUTSIDE EACH OTHER.
GREAT LITERATURE, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.
MERE LITERARY TALENT is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
WORDS seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
IF WORK is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
I DON’T KNOW where a poem comes from until after I’ve lived with it a long times. I’ve a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that ever happened to you.
VIRTUALLY every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems — especially wonderful tough monosyllables like ‘gasp’ and ‘cry.’ Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.
LESS IS MORE, IN PROSE AS IN ARCHITECTURE.
HORACE, when he wrote the “Ars Poetica”, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don’t let them go, don’t publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time you ought to have them right.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN. 1948— “A GAME OF THRONES”
. . .GRIEF can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.
HE WHO HURRIES THROUGH LIFE HURRIES TO HIS GRAVE.
NOTHING SOMEONE SAYS BEFORE THE WORD ‘BUT’ REALLY COUNTS.
HISTORY is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. what has happened before will perforce happen again.
SOME DOOR ARE BEST LEFT CLOSED.
NO MAN SHOULD LIVE LONGER THAN HIS TEETH.
I HAVE BEEN DESPISED BY BETTER MEN THAN YOU.
MORE DETAILS, MORE DEVILS.
WHEN a pirate grow rich enough, they make him a price.
PERHAPS that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.
GREAT WRONGS have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.
ONCE YOU’VE ACCEPTED YOUR FLAWS, NO ONE CAN USE THEM AGAINST YOU.
FIRE CONSUMES, BUT COLD PRESERVES.
WE READ FANTASY to find the colors again, I think. to taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
SOPHIA LOREN 1934-“Two Women” “The Life Ahead” “Sunflower”.
EVERYTHING YOU SEE I OWE TO SPAGHETTI.
MISTAKES ARE PART OF THE DUES ONE PAYS FOR A FULL LIFE.
THERE IS A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
NOTHING makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
BEAUTY is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
GOOD FOOD IS A CELEBRATION OF LIFE.
IF YOU HAVEN’T CRIED, YOUR EYES CAN’T BE BEAUTIFUL.
YOU HAVE TO ENJOY LIFE. Always be surrounded by people that you life, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
ENJOY LEARNING