Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
Author Unknown
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
Author Unknown
Quotes
I began writing in mystery, and it’s mystery that’s kept me writing.
Philip Levine, poet
Sexton, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967, and Plath… author of The Bell Jar and posthumous recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer for poetry, were unknown students writers…. Sexton was a troubled stay-at-home mom dabbling in poetry at her therapist’s suggestion, while Plath was just auditing.
Caleb Daniloff, for BU Today (link)
I always joke with my students that poetry couldn’t possibly be as hard as they think it is, because if it were as hard as they thought it was, poets wouldn’t do it. Really, they’re the laziest, stupidest people I know. They became poets in part because they were demoted to that job, right? You should never tell your students to write what they know because, of course, they know nothing: they’re poets! If they knew something, they’d… be in history or physics or math or business or whatever it is where they could excel.
Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin!
Author Unknown
It’s much easier to believe in our importance when we view ourselves within small contexts. Through its networks and groups, Facebook simplifies the globalized world into manageable cyber-villages, with many of the costs and benefits of real villages, from the lack of privacy to the comfort of being recognized. The difference is that on Facebook, each of us gets to rule our own village, inviting and expelling members as we see fit.
Johnny Thakkar in “The Withering of Narcissus: Playing Tyrant on the Internet” for The Point (via britticisms) (via somethingchanged)
People ignore design that ignores people.
Frank Chimero (via charzmendoza)
The wounding and healing of nations are not different from the wounding and healing of individuals.
Aurora Levins Morales, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas (via lalilster) (via deltafoxtrot)
Christians should not talk so much about “morality,” a word derived from mores, the beliefs of a particular tribe. Ethics, however, are based on ideas that are true at all times and in all cultures.
The problem here is that no one outside the IP lobby, not even those who strongly support copyright and patents, believes that these things are property that can be stolen. There is, I think, quite a bit of public sympathy for the view that the creative workers deserve a fair return for their efforts, and that social institutions should help to ensure that they receive it. There is essentially none for the inane suggestion that copying a video is similar to stealing a car.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via ireadintothings)
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via ireadintothings)
what if our homes were places not where you retreat from the big bad world but what if they were places of hospitality where we welcome people in and we share life with them and we ask them about their hopes and dreams and… their failures?
kurt hannah
Even when we try to avoid looking at screens, our eyes are naturally drawn to their flickering lights. The dazzling special effects of our iPhones and our video games stimulate our brains more powerfully than reality. Given the option of looking at the slow pace of nature unfold or the frenetic speed of a big budget movie playing on a tiny screen, we often choose the screen. […] Our visual addiction is masking our fear of feeling existence to its fullest.
Screen Addiction, Adbusters (via somethingchanged) (via jomc)
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway in Esquire, December 1934 (via 52books)
Facebook will replace email for a new generation. The chat is moving to a multimedia format. Gaming will move from devices directly to the internet. And Apple has a big future because of its strong mobile focus.
Ram Shriram (via the guardian)
I think sometimes that being overly type-sensitive is like an allergy, my font nerdiness makes me have bad reactions to things that spoil otherwise pleasant moments.
Michael Bierut, partner in Pentagram design group, NYC (via Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists by Alice Rawsthorn)
Read full article from the New York Times HERE.
(via icatchfoxes)
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott (via crookedtooth)
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
Robert Frost (via sonhosincolor)
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Buckminster Fuller (via 7knotwind)
Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a poem how to write a publishable poem.
“Show or Tell: Should creative writing be taught?” by Louis Menand in The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis (via justbesplendid) (via fluffynotes)
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
(via justbesplendid) (via quote-book) (via ireadintothings)
… the people of the creative class are fairly certain they are destined to be creative, but can never be certain about just how creative they are. So they must seek outward signs of their blessed inner superiority, must seek or contrive recognition for their creativity whenever possible. This is that class’s essential self-consciousness, and when it is acute, it becomes hipsterism.
“Creative writing and crippling self-consciousness,” Marginal Utility (via somethingchanged)
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