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TGIF! Here’s the Quote of the Day!
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth August 28, 1833: On this day, English poet William Wordsworth tried to impress his visitor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, by standing in...
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Happy Saturday All! Here’s the Quote of the Day…
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. William Allingham Irish poet William Allingham (born March 19, 1824) achieved a moderate level of fame during his lifetime, but he is...
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Tuesday’s Quote of the Day
I believe in the magic and authority of words. René Char In the early 1930s, popular French poet René Char (born June 14, 1907) rubbed elbows with Pablo Picasso and Albert Camus, but when World War...
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Quote of the day for October 8th
There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river. Marina Tsvetaeva Marina Tsvetaeva (born October 8, 1892) is...
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Quote and Author of the Day for December 15th
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ~Muriel Rukeyser During a five-decade literary career, American poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser (born December 15, 1913) produced work rich...
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Thanks Goodness It’s Friday! Here’s Your Quote of the Day!
Sometimes thou seem’st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are. Dante Gabriel Rossetti February 10, 1862: Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s wife, Lizzie Siddal, died 152 years ago...
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Thank Goodness it’s the middle of the week already! Have a great quote for...
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. Ben Okri Happy 58th birthday, Ben Okri! As a teenager, the Nigerian poet and novelist lived through his country’s civil war. He...
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Happy Humpday! Here’s Wednesday’s Quote of the Day! ❤️
In secret we met In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. George Gordon Byron May 17, 1824: Before dying in Greece, Lord Byron entrusted a friend with his memoirs....
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Love Of Words’ Quote of the Day for Tuesday
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. •Robert Frost August 1, 1915: Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken was first published in the Atlantic Monthly...
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Quote of the Day for Tuesday
Body and soul, let’s all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let’s go / with no turning back. Ko Un August 15, 1982: On this day, Ko Un was released from prison under a...
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