Peter add a quote by Ted Hughes

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:48:43 -0800

"What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life." -- Ted Hughes

Peter add a quote by Ted Hughes

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:41:01 -0800

"Because it is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something - perhaps not much, just something - of the crush of information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago. Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are, from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees. Something of the inaudible music that moves us along in our bodies from moment to moment like water in a river. Something of the spirit of the snowflake in the water of the river. Something of the duplicity and the relativity and the merely fleeting quality of all this. Something of the almighty importance of it and something of the utter meaninglessness. And when words can manage something of this, and manage it in a moment, of time, and in that same moment, make out of it all the vital signature of a human being - not of an atom, or of a geometrical diagram, or of a heap of lenses - but a human being, we call it poetry." -- Ted Hughes

Peter add a quote by Immanuel Kant

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:39:37 -0800

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." -- Immanuel Kant

Peter add a quote by Stephen W. Hawking

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:34:17 -0800

"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]" -- Stephen W. Hawking