Quotes

When words don’t seem enough, my fear cannot be spoken, I can only try and show it.

via When Words Don’t Seem Enough — Kris Sinclair

Emily Dickinson’s poem “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died -” is one of the mentor texts in Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell’s anthology Sleeping on the Wing. I love the anthology and often use it to pique my students’ interest in reading and writing poetry. It’s a new way of looking at […]

via I heard a Fly buzz — Persistence and Pedagogy

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life. Bernard Williams, English, philosopher

via “Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.” — Art of Quotation

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos. Danny Silk, author

via “Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.” — Art of Quotation

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt, book quote from “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

via “The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.” — Art of Quotation

“A riot is the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King Jr. , 60 Minutes interview Sept. 27, 1966

via “A riot is the language of the unheard.” — Art of Quotation

“A riot is the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King Jr. , 60 Minutes interview Sept. 27, 1966

via “A riot is the language of the unheard.” — Art of Quotation

Wish The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth. I want to hug, I want to hold, I want this deadly scourge controlled. I want to walk amidst a crowd. I want to lift this morbid shroud. I sit, sequestered in my home, And yearn to mingle, travel, roam. My […]

via “ The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth… My energy is out of whack — I want my normal problems back.” — Art of Quotation

Diane Olivier, artist and educator remembers sketching a tomato slice on a trip to France: “When I look at that drawing I remember the temperature, I remember where we were sitting,” she said. “I remember the shadow falling across the picnic table. I remember the people I was talking to. And when I look back […]

via “ when I look back at [a] drawing, it carries a couple hours of my life with it. ” — Art of Quotation

“As the vilest writer hath his readers, so the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” Jonathan Swift, writer

via “ the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” — Art of Quotation