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Quote of the day 08/06/25
From John Keats: “I want a brighter word than bright.”
Quote of the day 07/29/25
From John Donne: “All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated… As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, butContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/29/25”
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 05/30/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Words are many and the thing is one, but somehow it has got to be portrayed or suggested in words, but as a unity, not after the post-mortem of thought, not after the dissection of the intellect.”
Quote of the day 03/03/25
From Francis Bacon: “Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
Quote of the day 03/01/24
From Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
Quote of the day 12/24/24
From William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
Quote of the day 12/04/24
From Douglas Adams: “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”
Quote of the day 11/22/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
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