Wednesday, 9 July 2025

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Monday, 7 July 2025

Nobody, 
I think, 
ought to read poetry, 
or look at pictures or statues, 
who cannot find a great deal more in them 
than the poet or artist has actually expressed. 
Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Sunday, 6 July 2025

Saturday, 5 July 2025

As you proceed through life, 
following your own path, 
birds will shit on you. 
Don't bother to brush it off.
Getting a comedic view of your situation 
gives you spiritual distance.
Having a sense of humour saves you.

Friday, 4 July 2025

Thursday, 3 July 2025

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

I know but one freedom, 
and that is the freedom of the mind.

Monday, 30 June 2025

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum 
in which 
the exhibits are meanings 
and the words are labels. 
To switch languages is to change the labels.

Saturday, 28 June 2025

Friday, 27 June 2025

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, 
the police are prowling through the cities, 
the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, 
but the earth is still going round the sun.

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; 
but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty.

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Monday, 23 June 2025

Neither sex, 
without some fertilisation of the complementary characters of the other, 
is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavour.

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Saturday, 21 June 2025

The struggle alone pleases us, 
not the victory.

Friday, 20 June 2025

Thursday, 19 June 2025

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, 
but I have felt it.

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Never give up, 
for that is just the place and time 
that the tide will turn.

Monday, 16 June 2025

Sunday, 15 June 2025

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; 
but make it hot by striking.

Saturday, 14 June 2025

Friday, 13 June 2025

He knows not his own strength 
that has not met adversity.

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Monday, 9 June 2025

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong 
— especially if one is promptly found out.

Sunday, 8 June 2025

Saturday, 7 June 2025

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, 
of which the far greater part of the members 
are poor and miserable.

Friday, 6 June 2025

Thursday, 5 June 2025

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, 
he is endowing the word with life.

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, 
which not all have, 
with an uncommon sense, 
which very few have.

Monday, 2 June 2025

Sunday, 1 June 2025

A man does not know what he is saying 
until he knows what he is not saying.

Saturday, 31 May 2025

Friday, 30 May 2025

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

All life is an experiment. 
The more experiments you make 
the better.

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Monday, 26 May 2025

Every failure is a step to success.

Sunday, 25 May 2025

Saturday, 24 May 2025

An unfulfilled vocation drains the colour from a man's entire existence.

Friday, 23 May 2025

Thursday, 22 May 2025

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

To love it too much 
is to obscure 
and not see 
what is there.

Monday, 19 May 2025

Sunday, 18 May 2025

The information is in the people, 
not in your head.

Saturday, 17 May 2025

Friday, 16 May 2025

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture 
it accepts a new destiny.

Thursday, 15 May 2025

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Truth cannot be brought down; 
rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. 
You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. 
If you would attain to the mountaintop, 
you must pass through the valley, 
climb the steeps, 
unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Monday, 12 May 2025

We do not know enough about 
how the present will lead into the future.

Sunday, 11 May 2025

Saturday, 10 May 2025

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for
 — the whole thing — 
rather than just one or two stars.

Friday, 9 May 2025

Thursday, 8 May 2025

The only freedom I care about
 is the freedom to do right; 
the freedom to do wrong 
I am ready to part with 
on the cheapest terms 
to anyone who will take it of me.

Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Monday, 5 May 2025

Sunday, 4 May 2025

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, 
no matter which side he's on.

Saturday, 3 May 2025

Friday, 2 May 2025

The more nobly a man wills and acts, 
the more avid he becomes 
for great and sublime aims to pursue. 
He will no longer be content with family, country, 
and the remunerative aspect of his work. 
He will want wider organisations to create, 
new paths to blaze, 
causes to uphold, 
truths to discover, 
an ideal to cherish and defend.

Thursday, 1 May 2025

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Language is a part of our organism 
and no less complicated than it.

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Monday, 28 April 2025

A lost but happy dream 
may shed its light 
upon our waking hours, 
and the whole day 
may be infected 
with the gloom 
of a dreary or sorrowful one; 
yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Sunday, 27 April 2025

Saturday, 26 April 2025

Fashion is the science of appearance, 
and it inspires one with the desire to seem 
rather than to be.

Friday, 25 April 2025

Thursday, 24 April 2025

I am no bird; 
and no net ensnares me; 
I am a free human being 
with an independent will.

Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Tuesday, 22 April 2025

A high heart ought to bear calamities 
and not flee them, 
since in bearing them 
appears the grandeur of the mind 
and in fleeing them 
the cowardice of the heart.

Monday, 21 April 2025

Sunday, 20 April 2025

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Saturday, 19 April 2025

Friday, 18 April 2025

To find a form that accommodates the mess, 
that is the task of the artist now.

Thursday, 17 April 2025

Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... 
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Monday, 14 April 2025

Nature is a temple 
in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. 
Man approaches it through forests of symbols, 
which observe him with familiar glances.

Sunday, 13 April 2025

Saturday, 12 April 2025

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, 
the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us 
is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

Friday, 11 April 2025

Thursday, 10 April 2025

A multitude of causes 
unknown to former times 
are now acting with a combined force 
to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, 
and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion 
to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Tuesday, 8 April 2025

The hallway of every man's life 
is paced with pictures; 
pictures gay and pictures gloomy, 
all useful, 
for if we be wise, 
we can learn from them 
a richer and braver way to live.

Monday, 7 April 2025


Sunday, 6 April 2025

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility 
cannot keep me from making mistakes. 
Only when I fall 
do I get up again.

Saturday, 5 April 2025

Friday, 4 April 2025

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Thursday, 3 April 2025

Wednesday, 2 April 2025

I am never afraid of what I know.

Tuesday, 1 April 2025