“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Tag: writers
Late Summer Enjoyments: Books and Goats
Rosie The Cavalier Trying To Maintain Her Christmas Spirit In A Ridiculous Dress
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What town in New Jersey does John Weldon (the main character) travel to after the war? (the answer is on the homepage of this blog)
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“Snow Provokes Responses That Reach Right Back To Childhood” Andy Goldsworthy
“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.” Walter Scott
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.” John Ruskin
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway
Feathery Quotes
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world, whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw and feathers.” Lord Byron
“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend much strident efforts teaching their fledglings to fly–yet man who’s tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s entire education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil before he has started to think . . . men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of her nest to struggle for survival–yet that was what they did to their children.” Ayn Rand
“He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.” Psalm 91:4
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway
