Today’s One-Liner (#80)
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. –Wisława Szymborską, Nobel Lecture
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. –Wisława Szymborską, Nobel Lecture
My music is the production of my genius and my misery. –Franz Schubert, 1797-1828 Quoted in Phil G. Goulding, Classical Music
“Ah done lived Grandma’s way, now Ah means tuh live mine.” –Janie, in Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
I often wonder whether I have in me a single gene or drop off blood inherited from my biblical ancestors, or even from the ghettos of the old Spanish and German cities. Who knows, perhaps…
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. –St. Francis of Assisi
“She has a rare quality of taking full responsibility in the moment for everything she does and says.” –Grigory Dashevsky, quoted in Maria Stepanova’s introduction to Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope, Everyman’s Library, 2023
I was earlier going through a 2016-17 Moleskine commonplace book I kept, and came across the following passages I transcribed from Harold Bloom’s book, How to Read and Why. I hope you may enjoy at…
It is amazing in all the different ways we can be thankful here on Earth. We can be thankful for our coat that keeps us warm. For the butterflies that pollinate the pretty flowers. We…
(or, “Dear Lord, help me drink less wine so I don’t lose my temper”) Cait fell in love with medieval women’s mysticism during her MA at SLU when she realized they would be a much…
I only quote others to make myself more explicit. –Michel de Montaigne, Essays, On the education of children, translated by J.M. Cohen