When I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns. ~ Charles Bukowski ~ Photo by Appaloosa .

I missed yesterday's kwote and I almost missed today's! What is wrong with me? --KK A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehous...

Postcard courtesy Dave .

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. ~ Roger Ebert ~

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road...If you're ...

Little cat, are you as glad to have me to lie upon As I am to feel your fur under my hand? ~ Amy Lowell from "After an Illness...

We used to have contests at the elementary school--who could read the most books in a week or a month. I’d power through 30, 50 books. I w...

There is no "must" in art, because art is free. ~ Wassily Kandinsky ~ Kandinsky painting, 1911, courtesy Wikipedia .

There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable. ~ Dylan Lauren ~

In Morehouse's comet of 1908 tails were repeatedly formed and discarded to drift bodily out into space and float away. ~ From "T...

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. ~ Antonio Tabu...

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that ...

Last week I posted a really creepy animated cat video about Schrödinger's Cat. This one is a reasoned explanation of the Schrödinger...

Whatever you are, be a good one. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ Matthew Brady photograph courtesy Wikimedia .

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. ~ Charles Baudelaire ~ Illustration cou...

There are two ways to think about kindness. You can think about it as a fixed trait: either you have it or you don’t. Or you could think of ...

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at...

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~ Francois Fenelon ~

To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. ~ Edvard Munch ~ Photo from Munch Museum (Oslo) website .

Sorry, no quote, just an animated cat VIDEO! (And a pretty creepy one at that!)

There is no excuse for a culture of hate. ~ Neil Gaiman ~

Usually a poem takes shape acoustically--a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. ~ Thomas Lynch ~

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finall...

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~ Michelangelo ~ "The Conversion of Saul" courtesy The Athenaeum . Click...

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. ~ ...

[This should be tacked up in every home! --KK]

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, res...

Then the cat-shadow darted at her, through her legs, and slipped outside. It mingled with the shadows of bare branches, and leapt at the...

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endles...

But at last in the thousand elegies The dead rise in our hearts, On the brink of our happiness we stop Like someone on a drunk star...

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in Octob...

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ~ Mary Shelley ~ ...

"A dainty look..." If you practice, you should be all set by Friday! --KK

It seems that those spreading panic about Ebola, ISIS and the southern border hope that their new rhetoric will reinvigorate an old tactic: ...

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ Photo courtesy Ernest Hemingway ...

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ~ H. L. Mencken ~

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~ W. H. Auden ~ Photo courtesy N...

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of w...

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. ~ Ruth Handler ~ Image courtesy Mattel website . ...

Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their li...

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. ~ Lady Bird Johnson ~

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. ...

Language is power--we understand that words can move us to tears or laughter, inspire us to great deeds or urge us to mob action. Dictionar...

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. ~ E. O. Wilson ~ Pho...

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. ~ Bill Murray ~ Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commo...

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history. ~ Chris Jordan ...

Not exactly a kwote, but cat-related nonetheless.

Unsustainable consumption, population pressure, poverty and environmental degradation are intricately linked, but this is appreciated neithe...

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actual...

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream befor...

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, ap...

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our miser...

One of Scarlatti's compositions bears the title, The Cat's Fugue (at least in modern editions) and the story goes that a stroll on ...

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play. ~ John Cleese ~ "Baby at Play" by Thomas Eakins, courtesy The A...

The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about...

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Photo courtesy ...

Our public education system--being a system--inherently strives to be efficient and in doing so, chops out all the "messy bits." I...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ~ John Steinbeck ~ Photo by Ric...

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being ...

Cats come and go without ever leaving. ~ Martha Curtis ~ Photo by Ian Southwell .

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. ~ Tony Hillerman ~

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. ~ Eugene Ionesco ~ \ Photo by Philippe Alès courtesy Wikimedia .

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. ~ George Washington Carver ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress .

I nearly forgot to post today! So this one is for me! --KK Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. ...

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. ~ Ray Bradbury ~ Image courtesy NASA .

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They ...

The beauty of the cat is very deceptive, for under the grace of the furry exterior lie concealed steel-like muscles. ~ Carl Van Vechten ~...

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed mil...

Well, don’t you think there comes a time when everyone, not just a poet, wants to get beyond the Self? To reach, if you like, the "g...

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine...