Quote For The Day

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"Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from 'useful' doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health."

Ada Limon

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"The flutter of wings, the shadow across the moon, the sounds of the night, as the Nightbird spreads her wings and soars, above the earth, into another level of comprehension, where we only exist to feel. Come, fly with me, Alison Steel, the Nightbird, at WNEW-FM, until dawn."

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"The prize of the General is not a bigger tent, but command."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

Charles Darwin

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"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

Baruch Spinoza

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"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."

Samuel Butler

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"I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have."

Harriet Tubman

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"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent, expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

Laurence Olivier

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"Look at the friends of your youth again, after they have taken possession of their specialty -- Alas, in every case the reverse has taken place! One is the master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"If only it were enough to say, with Aristotle, that the desire to know is all the reason for the scholar's labors."

John Guillory