“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.” — Edward de Bono
Posts tagged ‘Poetry’
Oct 26
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Aug 17
“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” — Luigi Pirandello
Created in the gaze of a starry lion in the August sky, this series explores how imagination is to nature as words and images are to the work of creation.
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
― J.G. Ballard
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Jul 20
“The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.” — Nostradamus
Will it be wine and roses, or milk and honey?
Back when TVs and phones sprouted rotary dials and hearses grew tail fins, Marshall McLuhan observed: We look at the present through a rear-view mirror, march backwards into the future.
What kind of future are we backing into at present? For answers, a great jovialist consults a prophet of doom.
“For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.”
— Nostradamus
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Jul 2
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi
Following our previous post, “True Tile Tales,” we picked these tales up off the cutting-room floor, and the tiles came with them. A little bird told us they wouldn’t lie. So, truth be told…
Some stories are true that never happened.
— Elie Wiesel
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“There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? … To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Our myths glow, as tiles made of clay and compassion, with the fire of gods.
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.” —Auguste Rodin
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May 29
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Waiting for a gift from the sea” is a metaphor of practicing patience as its own reward, as virtue must be, for goodness’ sake. If inner strength and endurance are among all good things that come to those who wait, well, a gift from the sea is worth waiting for.
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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May 12
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
When there’s nothing else he’d rather do, a writer on a raft, idles on the tide. This series of picture poetry is an artist’s impressions of words which emerge from idling well.
It is better to idle well than to work poorly.
— Anon
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Apr 6
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
To welcome this spring’s new beginning of time for every purpose under the sun, the task of the arts, like that of the sciences, is to say something about Nature.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
— Niels Bohr
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Apr 5
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.” —Anonymous
What’s the sound a name makes when it’s dropped? —Anonymous
The quotations in this post may be attributed to immortal names. But on the Johns Hopkins University site and others from which they are sourced, they are unattributed.
This tribute, by a nicknamed artist and a pen-named poet, gives all authors of immortal wit and wisdom, truth and beauty, by whatever other names they may also be lauded, a name the world of arts and letters never forgets.
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Mar 10
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