Quotes – Page 60 – BIG OTHER

March 28, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.”

Happy birthday, Mario Vargas Llosa! 83, today! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Like writing, reading is a…

March 28, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Not until we’re totally crushed do we show what we are made of.”

Happy birthday, Bohumil Hrabal! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Writing is a defence against boredom, but it’s also…

March 25, 2019April 4, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

“I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is…

March 24, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”

Happy 100th birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti! Here are some quotes from his writing. “If you would be a poet, create works…

March 23, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes

“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”

Happy birthday, Akira Kurosawa! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves…

March 21, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

Happy birthday, Slavoj Žižek! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they…

March 20, 2019April 4, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You can produce fine poems without believing anything, but it corrodes the spirit and eventually rots the seed-corn of the heart.”

R.I.P., Linda Gregg. Here are some poems and some quotes from her writing. “[I]t is crucial that a poet see…

March 20, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“To write is to preside at judgment day over one’s self.”

“One’s life is a heavy price to pay for being born.” “He who possesses liberty otherwise than as an aspiration…

March 18, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.”

Happy birthday, Stéphane Mallarmé! Here are some quotes from his writing. “It is in front of the paper that the…

March 16, 2019April 4, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Oh always, never to find the never of so much always.”

Happy birthday, César Vallejo! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these.…