“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Must I Write?
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Pondering
There are three idealists: God, mothers, and poets! They don’t seek the ideal in completed things- they find it in the incomplete.
-Peter Altenberg
Thought Of The Day!
Tz-lu asked how one should serve ghosts and sprits. The Master said, Till you have learnt to serve the men, how can you serve the ghosts? Tzu-lu then ventured upon a question about the dead. The Master said, Till you know about living, how are you to know about the dead?
-The Analects of Confucius (?551-?479 BC), tr. Waley
Spirits, Do They Exist?
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against is; but all belief is for it.
-Boswell, Life of Johnson
Evening News
Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good evening’, and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.
-Unknown
