Ogden Nash, Letitia Elizabeth Landon — Birthdays — Plus — Ruth Colvin, Salvadore Quasimodo, Mieczyslaw Weinberg

When you look back over what happened in your life, you see things that made you what you are. In my case those things made me a very determined person. Ruth Colvin 1916-2024 "ProLiteracy"

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. Salvatore Quasimodo

A composer is someone who knows how to illuminate what is in each one of us with his own inimitable light, unlike any other. 'Traditionalism,' 'Avant-Gardism' & 'Modernism' have no meaning. One thing is important: that which is truly important: that which is truly yours. Mieczyslaw Weinberg. 1919-1996 — Polish/Russian composer

Trust that your soul has a plan. Even if you can't see it all, know everything will unfold as it is meant to.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things. Life & death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu

Eric Dolphy said music is like the wind. You don't know where it came from & you don't know where it went. You can't control it. All you can do is get in the sphere of it. Bobby Hutcherson — obit NYT 8/16/16

Life is a process of self-sustainability & self-generated action. Ayn Rand

Letitia Elizabeth Landon. 1802-1838 "The Improvisatrice"

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Unraveling external selves & coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. Sue Monk Kidd

Ogden Nash 1902-1971. "The Tale of Custard the Dragon" "Ogden Nash's Zoo"

A Flea and a Fly in the Flue.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

The Panther
The panther is like a leopard.
Except it hasn't been peppered.
Should you behold a panther crouch,
Prepare to say ouch.
Or better yet, if called by a panther,
Don't antler.

Bernard de Clairvaux 1090-1153 — "On Loving God" "Sermons on the Song of Songs"

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The measure of love is love without measure.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility and humility.

God will either give us what we ask or what He knows to be better for us.

There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

We find rest in those we love and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

The more I contemplate God — the more God looks on me. The more I pray to Him, the more He thinks of me too.