"We live in an old chaos of the sun" - Wallace Stevens. From his meditative and philosophical poem, Sunday Morning, which was first published in 1915. The poem opens with a domestic scene in which an unnamed woman somewhat guiltily enjoys her morning after skipping Sunday services....
"Common sense is not so common" - Voltaire. There are times when it makes sense to go with the flow and times when your heart tells you not to. View print.
"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy. This is one of the longer quotations we've included in our collection, but it's such a...
“Prudence allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life” This was Fuller's advice to Ralpho Waldo Emerson on “living a little.” Those rogue guitar strings though... View print.
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." - John Keats From his exquisite poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. Keats pushes all the right buttons for us. The tension between imagination and reality, the perfect and the flawed, the eternal...
"The Future is only dark from outside - Leap into it, and it explodes with Light."- Mina Loy From her manifesto Aphorisms on Futurism, first published in Camera Work issue 45 in January of 1914. Loy was a fierce progressivist both politically and creatively....
