Posted on August 14, 2025August 14, 2025 “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul….”—Emily Dickinson, American poet, 1830-1886
Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 “I plan for the future. I yearn for the past. And, meantime, the present is leaving me fast.”—Anonymous
Posted on October 28, 2023October 28, 2023 “I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be okay.”—Maya Angelou, American poet, 1928-2014
Posted on May 26, 2023 “Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.”—Aphra Behn, English poet, 1640-1689
Posted on December 21, 2022December 20, 2022 “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973
Posted on December 12, 2022December 14, 2022 “Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.”—Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet, 1802-1850
Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022 “There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)
Posted on September 19, 2022 “Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935
Posted on September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC
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