February 2011
145 posts
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once...
– John Irving
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...
– Robert Frost
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a...
– Emerson
Literature can affirm presentness and show the value of what is; through...
– Mark William Roche
There once was a very lovely, very frightened girl. She lived alone except for a...
– Paul Varjak (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
The heart has its reasons, whereof Reason knows nothing.
– Blaise Pascal
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The...
– George Bernard Shaw
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
– L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...
– Chuck Palahniuk
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
– C.S. Lewis
I’m not the girl that I intend to be
I dare you darling, just you wait...
– Sara Bareilles, “Gonna Get Over You”
Creativity takes courage.
– Henri Matisse