Reads tagged with “literature”

Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion

“Color itself is a degree of darkness.”

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Anaïs Nin on Life, Hand-Lettered by Artist Lisa Congdon

“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”

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Is It Dirty: A Love Letter to New York’s Grit from Frank O’Hara, 1964

“…you don’t refuse to breathe do you…”

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The Father of Modern Meteorology Pays Homage to Jonathan Swift in a Scientific Verse, 1920

Literature and science converge in a playful riff on a riff on a riff.

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Francis Bacon on Learning and How to Read Intelligently

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.”

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Maya Angelou on Home, Belonging, and (Not) Growing Up

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up … our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”

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Introducing Literary Jukebox: Daily Book Quote Matched with a Song

An experiment in cross-pollinating the arts.

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Anaïs Nin on Paris vs. New York, 1939

“The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.”

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Susan Sontag on Writing

“There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.”

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Thoreau on Defining Your Own Success

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal — that is your success.”

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Reads tagged with “literature”

“Color itself is a degree of darkness.”

“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”

“…you don’t refuse to breathe do you…”

Literature and science converge in a playful riff on a riff on a riff.

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.”

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up … our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”

An experiment in cross-pollinating the arts.

“The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.”

“There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.”

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal — that is your success.”

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