“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”-Tom Waits
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Category Archives: Quotes
Leonard Cohen Quote
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”-Leonard Cohen
Two Margaret Fuller Quotes
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”
Spring? Spring!
The calendar and the weather agree that it is spring (at least for today). Let’s celebrate with this pretty painting and a relevant quote:
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”-Rainer Maria Rilke
Springtime by John Henry Twachtman, circa 1884
Anton Chekhov Quote
“The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”-Anton Chekhov
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beatrix Potter Quote
Beatrix Potter quote
Hemingway Quote
Ernest Hemingway Quote
Vacation! Vacation! Vacation!
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”-Rumi
I’ll be on vacation for nine days, starting tomorrow. The Chef and I are road-tripping it to Texas to visit some of my in-laws. Several posts are pre-scheduled, so the blog won’t be on radio silence whilst I am away. Answering comments might be a bit trickier, but I’ll do my best.
Beachy Clara Bow
“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows ❤
The Thrill of Creative Effort
FDR Quote
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