It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys a...

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. ~ Frank Zappa ~

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. ~ Joe Moore ~

...In the pewter mornings, the cat, a black fur sausage with yellow Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. ...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. ~ Bertolt Brecht ~ Photo by ho visto nina volare .

Illustration by Edmund Dulac courtesy Project Gutenberg .

I want my fair share--and that's ALL of it. ~ Charles Koch ~ I guess Mr. Koch won't be honoring this special day. To learn abou...

And so with all things: names were vital and important. ~ Algernon H. Blackwood ~

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. ~ ...

The organization of cats is musical; they are capable of giving many modulations to their voices and in the different passions which occu...

And for me, to live in fear of you and your unnecessary fears, that’s not Freedom, nor is that Liberty. A gun doesn’t make a fearful person...

Poets write, I do believe, because they have to--it's something nothing else quite satisfies. One has to do it--compulsively. ~ Ro...

Love is a human experience, not a political statement. ~ Anne Hathaway ~ Image courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

True Art is an organized piece of work that effectively communicates a genuine human experience. ~ Caleb Jacobo ~ 13th century Chinese...

Sorry, you'll probably have an earworm for the rest of the day. --KK

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you       Till China and Africa meet,              And the river jumps over the mountain    ...

I could never, even as a child, see any good reason why the language of verse should be distorted almost out of recognition in order t...

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys. ~ David Copperfield ~

The energy in a train station is an odd combination of adrenaline and boredom; anticipation for the destination tempered by impatience at h...

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles. ~ Chinese proverb ~ Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Gallery .

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ~ Willa Cather ~ Photo courtesy the Willa Cather Archive .

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Photo by katstan .

The Poetry of earth is never dead. ~ John Keats ~ Photo by Striving to a Goal .

Most of the time, poetry enjoys the visibility of other minor cultural subcultures like chess or quilting. ~ Anita Diamant ~ Cover of T...

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. ~ Fred Allen ~ Graphic courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

"She is tolerable I suppose." ~ Mr. Darcy ~

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with...

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When teachers, aides, school counselors, and others spend hours in early spring drilling students on test-taking techniques, that is time th...

I say I don't like the dance image which always occurs when you try to figure out where the poet is doing things, and it's like a d...

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~ Matsuo Basho ~

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learned to read. ~ Nicholas Cage ~

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. ~ James Cromw...

Courtesy NPR .

And while milk is not poisonous to cats, it is also not ideal for fully grown and mature cats. The reason for this is that the majority of ...

But there is another glory belonging to this age, and almost to this age alone of our poetry--the glory of Female Genius. We have heard and ...

You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either conti...

Cheesiness seems to belong to whatever strikes us as cheesy. The cheese fountain would be cheesy, we think, whether it burbled at the b...

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully a...

She read while doing other things, multitasking back when it was called rudeness. ~ Jeanne Darst from Fiction Ruined My Family ~

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~ Willia...

the cat joins the party... drinking away the year ~ Kobayashi Issa , translated by David G. Lanoue ~ Photo by Eerko .

We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-relat...

Putting poems in your memory bank is better than dollars. ~ Maxine Kumin ~

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal. ~ William Kempe ~

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well a...

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ~ Andy Goldsworthy ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress .

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future. ~ Danielle Steel ~

It's tough to find out who's responsible for the action as the cat doesn't speak. ~ A prison spokesman, reported by the BBC ...

House Republicans have unsuccessfully voted 33 times in the last two years to eliminate health care reform and wasted at least 88 hours and ...

To the artists and writers, let's nigh drink a health, The people whose hopes, and whose joys are our wealth, Whose tools are upon can...

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles. ~ Sonja Henie ~ Photo courtesy Historic Royal Palaces .

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes ...

The dark night is ending and dawn has begun; Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun, All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one!...

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. ~ Garrison Keillor ~ Graphic courtesy ...

My sister grumbles about sharing dedication space in my book with my cat, Perdita. I like cats. People are fine, but, like Ivan Karamazov, I...

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines--it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. ~ ...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation o...

Photo of Alice in Wonderland quote by never going home .

It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world--it's going to be a game changer. ~ Steve Jobs ~ Photo by Matt Buchana...

Courtesy how to build & repair .

Note: click on the image for a larger view. From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations by W. F. Dawson.

Meowy Christmas!

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch ...

Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulde...

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures...

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importa...

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I a...

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. ~ Nikki Giovanni ~

Now, Pussy, you must be real good,        And learn to spell like me; When I say, "Pussy, what is this?"        You must say, T...

Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear; violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and...

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. ~ Richard Brautigan ~ ...

Watch 'em splishin' and a-splashin' (Do de rubber duck!) It's the very latest fashion! (Do de rubber duck!) ~ Guy Smile...

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. ~ Charlaine Harris ~