Quotes – Page 49 – BIG OTHER

October 27, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The blood jet is poetry, / There is no stopping it.”

Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath! “[L]et me live, love, and say it well in good sentences…” “[E]verything in…

October 21, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer. “To learn which questions are…

October 16, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.”

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the writer. “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.” …

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer. “There is nothing for it but for all…

October 15, 2019October 15, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “Is it better to out-monster the monster…

October 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?”

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian. “I am no doubt not…

October 14, 2019 - Birthday, Books, News, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Writing the innovative enables us to think about inventing languages that might help us think beyond who, what, and when we are.”

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen, literary giant, small press hero, acclaimed professor, and great friend! Innovative artist par excellence, Lance’s…

October 7, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.”

Happy birthday, Amiri Baraka! Here are some quote from the writer. “There is no justice in America, but…

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.”

Happy birthday, Wallace Stevens!

September 18, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You rebel not only for what you can achieve, but for who you become.”

Happy birthday, Chris Hedges! 63, today. Here are some quotes from the writer. “There will be rebels. They…