Today’s One-Liner (#133)
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. –Léon Bloy, quoted by Brad Miner
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A Simple, Extraordinary Gift/2
I am engrossed these days rereading Nadezhda Mandelstam’s inspiring memoir, Hope Against Hope. It’s an account of her life with her husband, the acclaimed poet Osip Mandelstam who ran afoul of the revolutionaries of the…
Today’s One-Liner (#119)
Fortitude is the key to any great endeavor, and the only way to earn it is one small step at a time. –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded…
“What Dreams May Come”
These passages, with their rich imagery and their unerring rhythmic ebb and flow, are among the most moving and complex speeches in our literature. But it is the soliloquy in the third act, “To be…
Today’s One-Liner (#37)
One advantage of knowing the classics is that no matter the what situation you might find yourself in, you’ll remember that someone else was there before you. –Kenneth Rexroth, quoted in Anne Waldman and Laura…
Writing and Reading Inter-Are/1
When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library…
Walt, for Andrew, 1.22.24
I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,But really I am neither for nor against institutions, (What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?)Only…
Thought of the Day
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. –Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 41
You, Too?
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world,…