Poetry Friday

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

~ Hilaire Belloc ~

It's Feeling

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

~ Bill Evans ~

Or, a Candy Bar?

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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

~ Galileo Galilei ~

Communication

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~

Not Only That--It Means You Get to Eat!

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

~ Jane Austen ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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The cat is the mirror of his human's mind...the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.

~ Winifred Carriere ~

I Like Her Attitude!

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~ Sophia Loren ~



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Poetry Friday

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

~ Christina Rossetti ~





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Thanks!

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader,...As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day.

~ Nora Roberts ~

Oooh, Poor Thomas Stearns

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

~ T.S. Eliot ~

Bridges

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The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

~ David Russell ~

R.I.P., Frank McCourt

University librarians poked me when I snored behind a stack of books. One librarian told me snoozing was strictly forbidden. She was kind enough to suggest that out in Washington Square Park there was no end of benches where I could stretch till the cops came. I thanked her and told her how I'd always admired librarians, not only for their mastery of the Dewey Decimal System, but for their helpfulness in other areas of daily living.

~ Frank McCourt ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

~ Wesley Bates ~



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It Smells Like Summer!

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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

~ Diane Ackerman ~

Poetry Friday

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

~ G. K. Chesterton ~





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Necessities

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

~ Harry S. Truman ~


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Enthusiasm Will Only Take You So Far

Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.

~ Egyptian proverb found on a temple in Luxor ~

Happy Bastille Day!

I cannot prevent the French from being French.

~ Charles de Gaulle ~

A Man With a Message

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Which is more beautiful--feline movement or feline stillness?

~ Elizabeth Hamilton ~






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Vacation

A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

~ Author unknown ~

Poetry Friday

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

~ W. H. Auden ~

And That's That!

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt ~

Happy Birthday, Anjelica Huston!

That's why actors can take on other lives, because I think basically, at the bottom of everything, they are terribly insecure people. They don't feel themselves to be bright and beautiful, or necessarily beloved. So they're always looking for it. And as long as they're looking for it, they work at their best capacity. So in that way, their insecurity feeds their talent.

~ Anjelica Huston ~

Don't Forget to Read This Summer!

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

~ Confucius ~

Diets

The main thing in weight loss is calories in versus calories out. People go on fad diets and think 'This one will be different,' but it never is and their weight rebounds and they move on to the next fad diet.

~ Judith Stern ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.

~ Portuguese proverb ~


No one can accuse me of being a scoundrel! --KK

Happy Independence Day!

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

~ from the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 ~

Poetry Friday

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

~ James Russell Lowell ~

Unruly Kids

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

~ Erma Bombeck ~

What a Scary Thought!

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.

~ Winston Churchill ~

He Should Know About Intelligence!

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.

~ Albert Einstein ~

I Hope It's Not Too Late

Changes that can affect us can happen in our lifetime in our world--not just changes like wars but bigger and more sweeping events. I believe that without recognizing it we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change; that we are at the end of nature. By the end of nature I do not mean the end of the world. The rain will still fall and the sun shine, though differently than before. When I say "nature," I mean a certain set of human ideas about the world and our place in it.

~ Bill McKibben ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

~ Robertson Davies ~

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R.I.P.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

~ Michael Jackson ~




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Poetry Friday

I never want to be thought of as pandering to a broad audience, but you can tweak a poem just slightly and broaden the audience very much. If you have a literary allusion, you limit the audience. Every choice requires a cost-benefit analysis.

~ Ted Kooser ~

Spoken like a true former Poet Laureate AND retired insurance exec. --KK

They Just Hate Me!

Poison ivy is not, technically, an ivy. Poison oak is not an oak. Poison sumac has nothing to do with sumac trees. And by the way, none of them are poisonous.

The irritating oil they produce, urushiol, is not at all toxic, but it does happen to be an oil that most people are highly allergic to. Oddly enough, only humans are bothered by exposure to urushiol. No one knows why the plants have singled out people for their unique form of vitriol.

~ Amy Stewart ~

I Work in Paradise--Oh, My!

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

~ Jorge Luis Borges ~

Freedom of Speech

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

~ George Washington ~

Summer!

A life without love is like a year without summer.

~ Swedish proverb ~







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Sunday's Kat Kwote

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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

~ Italo Calvino ~

A Wonderful Time of Year

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

~ Iris Murdoch ~

Poetry Friday

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

~ Jim Harrison ~

And You Can't Understand If You Don't Take Time

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure--if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

~ Ethel Barrymore ~

Mindsets

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

~ Muhammad Yunus ~


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This Makes Sense to Me!

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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Hmmm...

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

~ Lawrence Welk ~


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Sunday's Kat Kwote

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

~ Robert A. Stern ~







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Are We All Fools?

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson ~

Poetry Friday

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

~Joseph Joubert~

That's One Thousand Five Hundred

Did you know that the average food product travels about 1,500 miles to get to your grocery store? And that transporting food accounts for 30,800 tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year?

~ from the Food, Inc. website ~

How Many of You Can Recite This by Heart?

One fish
two fish
red fish
blue fish.

Black fish
blue fish
old fish
new fish.

This one has
a little star.

This one has a little car.
Say! what a lot
of fish there are.

Kindness

With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.

~ Persian proverb ~

A Thought for Monday

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

~ Samuel Butler ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

~ German proverb ~

Unless you're a cat! --KK





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Talking Is Overrated

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

~ Ginger Rogers ~




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Poetry Friday

Let go of any preconceived ideas and simply do whatever brings you the most enjoyment. This is your life, the book you are writing.

~ Jane Reichhold ~

Berries

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~