From John Donne: “He that desires to print a book should much more desire to be a book.”
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Quote of the day 07/26/25
From John Donne: “Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right,By these we reach divinity”
Quote of the day 07/25/25
From John Donne: “To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.”
Quote of the day 07/24/25
From John Donne: “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Quote of the day 07/23/25
From John Donne: “Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”
Quote of the day 07/22/25
From Basho: “To talk casuallyAbout an iris flowerIs one of the pleasuresOf the wandering journey.”
Quote of the day 07/21/25
From Basho: “Birth of art –song of rice planters,chorus from nowhere.”
Quote of the day 07/20/25
From Basho: “What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No mater what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon ourContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/20/25”
Quote of the day 07/19/25
From Basho: “In the end, without skill or talent, I’ve given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.”
Quote of the day 07/18/25
From Basho: “Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.”
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