Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. ~ Edith Södergran from "A Wish"~ Photo b...

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~ Lao Tzu ~ Graphic courtesy openclipart .

I have no luddite prejudice against new technology; it's just that books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if t...

I tend to like poems that engage me--that is to say, which do not bore me. ~ Mark Strand ~

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgra...

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to mast...

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that w...

I don't know how I missed this earlier! --KK

When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll; whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, "It is we...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket. ~ Saina Nehwal ~

At the Internet Archive, we know we can’t preserve the world’s knowledge alone. We will need the public’s help to curate our shared human c...

BinCam is a two-part system designed to increase individuals’ awareness of their food waste and recycling behaviour. It uses a standard kitc...

When they’re well-matched, it’s good for cats to have companionship. ~ Marva Marrow ~ "Two Cats" by Suzanne Valadon (1918), c...

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ...

The poet will seek to clothe herself in sparrows. ~ Larry Sawyer from "Sundial" ~ Can I just say how much I love this...

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's spo...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Print courtesy L...

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried ab...

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! ~ Kurt Cobain ~

Some years ago there was a cat-concert held in Paris. It was called "Concert Miaulant," from the mewing of the animals. They we...

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of t...

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days...

Men are what their mothers made them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing." ~ E. B. White from Charlotte's Web ~

Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I d...

What is undeniable is that manner and matter, the theme and the way in which it is expressed, the meaning and the structure, cannot be s...

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans...

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people...

Ask yourself in the quietest hour of the night: must I write? Dig down into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be in the af...

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupér...

The bone that has no marrow;     What ultimate for that? It is not fit for table,     For beggar, or for cat. ~ Emily Dickinson ~ ...

I am in earnest. I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--AND I WILL BE HEARD. ~ William Lloyd Garr...

In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent: a thing is brought forth which we didn’t know we had in us, so we blink ou...

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet und...

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All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilizat...

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~

There will be other days, there will be other voices. You will smile alone. The cats will know. ~ Cesare Pavese from "The Cats Will ...

April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~ Hal Borland ~

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. ~ James Huneker ~ [Hanging poems on a cherry tree]. Woodcut print courtesy L...

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ...

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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement fo...

The more high-tech our lives become, the more nature we need. ~ Richard Louv ~

the cat's bell tinkling in the peonies here and there ~ Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue . Photo by cwgreeny .

If you don't like gay people, take it up with the manufacturer, because God keeps creating them around the world! ~ John Fugelsang ~ ...

...a poem is a chunk of language to be used for purposes seen as important by government-hired experts. It’s irrelevant whether these have a...

When you stop having dreams and ideals--well, you might as well stop altogether. ~ Marian Anderson ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress ...

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mo...

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths....

Happy Easter!

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. ~ Mark Twain ~ Photo by amseaman .

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art--we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it ...

When I was 10 years old, I loved--I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just affo...

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ William Shakespeare ~ Illustration courtesy openclipart ....

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. ~ Mary Shelley ~

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~ Albert Einstein ~ Photo by F. Schmutzer, c...

Her head is under the cat and like the cat, she sleeps. ~ Susan Griffin from "The Perfect Mother" ~ Photo by Daveybot .

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ~ Isaac Newton ~

Who will guard over the fragile blossom of haiku poetry? Who will protect it in our own time against all that threatens it: societal indiffe...

I must be losing my mind. I forgot yesterday, and nearly forgot to post today! --KK Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the fu...

Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight ja...

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret ...

The black kitten cries at her bowl meek meek and the gray one glowers from the windowsill. My hand on the can to serve them. First day ...

A writer writes not because he is educated, but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need ...

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ~ Wallace Stevens ~ Photo fr...