William Wordsworth on poetry: “It’s object is truth … carried alive into the heart by passion: truth which is its own testimony.”
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Quote of the day 05/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Thus we see that love of all living creatures which springs up naturally in our hearts, unless thwarted by instruction, custom, or self-love, is no more and no less than our Buddha-nature manifesting itself. Further, love, like knight errantry, equalizes all things, and this equality of all things, the absolute worth andContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/23/25”
Quote of the day 05/13/25
From Kikaku: The beggar! He has heaven and earth For his summer clothes.
Quote of the day 05/12/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What then is the function of poverty in life, reality, poetry? Poverty means the closest possible approximation of these three things which in our ordinary manner of living are separated.”
Quote of the day 05/04/25
From Walt Whitman: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Quote of the day 04/28/25
From William Blake: “Man’s perceptions are not bound by Organs of Perception. He perceives more than Sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover. The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.”
Quote of the day 04/25/25
From William Blake: “Everything possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.”
Quote of the day 04/21/25
From William Wordsworth: One impulse from a vernal woodMay teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,Than all the sages can.
Quote of the day 04/20/25
From William Wordsworth: “and we shall findA pleasure in the dimness of the stars.”
Quote of the day 04/18/25
From William Wordsworth: Sweet is the lore which nature brings;Our meddling intellectMisshapes the beauteous forms of things—We murder to dissect.
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