I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. ~ Yogi Berra ~

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. ~ Robert Frost ~ Photo courtesy Robert Frost Farm .

You know, the Beatles seem to find a new audience each time another generation comes along. ~ George Martin ~

For by stroaking of him I have found out electricity. ~ Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno ~ Photo by Hybernaut .

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimisti...

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~ Jean Cocteau ~ Photo courtesy David Reverchon .

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That'...

The awakening of a giant shakes the world. ~ Arabian proverb ~ Graphic courtesy USGS .

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ~ Bob Marley ~

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, p...

What intenseness of desire, In her upward eye of fire! With a tiger-leap half-way, Now she meets the coming prey. Lets...

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. ~ Henry Van Dyke ~...

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. ~ Horace ...

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it di...

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. ~ William Faulkner ~ Photo by Carl Van Vechten courtesy ...

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus ~

For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses. ~ Christopher Smart from "Jubilate Agno" ...

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others l...

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ~ Carl Sandburg ~

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types...

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow. ~ D...

Official United States Post Office figures for the year ending June 30, 1908 cited 667,777,798 postcards mailed in the United States. By 191...

A Man loved his Cat with a love quite fanatic; He thought her darling, lovely, dainty, and          dramatic. ~ Jean de la Fontaine ~ Photo ...

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. ~ Augusten Burroughs ~

Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How few of us there've been, it's queere...

Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. ~ Margaret Mahy ~

Why buy a book when you can join a library. ~ Ricky Gervais ~ Photo courtesy Little Free Library .

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ The photo of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building, as ...

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and...

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 ..