When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. ~ Ma...

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. ~ Sting ~ Chart courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time. ~ Ginger Rogers ~ And it's t...

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~ Isak Dinesen ~

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't rememb...

~ From Punky Dunk and the Gold Fish by Anonymous ~

Technology is a set of habits, and they can be good or bad for you. ~ Lauren Cerand ~ Image courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they k...

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ~ Jack Kerouac ~ Photo by wallyg .

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ~ Joseph Addison ~

There are an estimated 122,101 libraries of all kinds in the United States today. ~ American Library Association Library Fact Sheet 1 ~

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before. ~ Rupert Grint ~

Then Tabitha Twitchit came down the garden and found her kittens on the wall with no clothes on. ~ Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Tom Kitte...

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige ~ Photo by zinetv .

Efficient use of language is one of the major hallmarks of poetry. For the poet, this means avoiding clumsy or pointless repetition by sayin...

A friend--one soul, two bodies. ~ Chinese proverb ~

In almost all of our family trees we have someone who was brave enough--sometimes crazy enough--to leave his or her home country to come to ...

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on...

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire? ~ Jack Kroll ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress .

Rain The rain is raining everywhere,           Kittens to shelter fly—- But Human Folk wear overshoes,           To keep their hind paws dry...

the bees got their governmental system settled millions of years ago but the human race is still groping ~ Don Marquis from archy and mehita...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in i...

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. ~ John Paul Jones ~

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the cloud...

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. ~ Charles Scribner, Jr. ~ Photo by Overdue...

Have a safe and happy 4th! Image courtesy riptheskull .

the big cat sleeps in the same seat... with the doll ~ Issa , translated by David G. Lanoue ~ Photo by .. marta ..

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~ Mark Twain ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress .

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~ Thomas Gray ~

Every time a child says, "I don’t believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ~ J.M. Barrie from Peter P...

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books. ~ Tom T. ...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall. ~ Peter Falk ~ Sketch by Peter Falk courtesy PeterFalk.com .

If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. ~ Barbara L. Diamond ~ Photo by spear of the natio...

...you will find with the proper use of "imagination" almost all the problems in one's life and possibly the world would vanis...

That's how poetry has always been for me. It's been a way of sustaining my questions about life and mortality and all those things t...

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ~ Kermit the Frog from "The Rainbow Connection Final...

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people. ~ ...

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God...When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to...

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart. ~ Clarence Clemons ~

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" ~ Samuel Butler ~ Ph...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. ~ Thomas ...

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed ...

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger the capital "W....

But what I hope for from a book--either one that I write or one that I read--is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't...

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know...

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am, because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork. ~ Guy Ritchie ~

Long hair, soft as satin,     A musical purr, 'Gainst the window she'd flatten     Her delicate fur ~ Frederick Locker-Lampson from ...

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~ Image courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W. H. Auden ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress .

The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administrati...

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was stru...

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. ~ Ethel Merman ~ Does a...

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought. I'm happy to be doing...

Cats eat catnip excitedly, Get drunk and jump around ~ Howard Moss from "Catnip and Dogwood" ~ Smudge in a drunken stupor on a cat...

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy ...

If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a letter. ~ Amy Lowell "A Lover" ~ Note: this is the co...

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ~ Wendell Berry ~ Photo by adwriter .

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending ...

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most i...

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Pussycat Sits on a Chair Pussycat sits on a chair Implacably with acid stare. Those who early loved in vain Use the cat to try again, And te...