Thought for the Day

To reread a beloved book after a long time away is always

a great risk. [. . .] for a book that is more than merely a favorite,

a book that has a hand in creating you, the risk of loss is even

greater. [. . .] if you were to lose that book, you would feel that

you had lost some necessary part of yourself. [. . .]

~ Margaret Renkl

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Quoted from Margaret Renkl, "I Reread a Book That Changed My Life, but I'd Changed, Too," The New York Times, June 3, 2024; Online

Margaret Renkl, Prize-Winning Writer and Author; Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times; Founding Editor, Chapter 16

Thought for the Day

If I play you a piece of music,

that's when you can truly look inside me.

~ Hans Zimmer

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Quoted from Transcript of Stephen Galloway Interview with Hans Zimmer at The Hollywood Reporter, November 3, 2014; Online. Also see Hans Zimmer Quotes at QuoteFancy.

Hans Zimmer, Prolific and Influential German-born American Composer and Music Producer

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Thought for the Day

Flowers are made to seduce the senses: fragrance, form, colour.

If you cannot be seduced by beauty, you cannot learn

the wisdom of ugliness.

~ H.D.

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Quoted from H.D., "Notes on Thoughts and Vision" in Visions and Ecstasies (David Zwirner Books, 2019), p. 28

H.D. (1886-1961), American Poet, Novelist, Memoirist, Essayist, Critic, Writer of Children's Books, and Translator

Note: H.D. was the pen name of Hilda Doolittle.

Additional profiles are found at American Academy of Poets, New Directions Publishing, and Yale University Modernism Lab.

Thought for the Day

We look at the world once, in childhood. /

The rest is memory.

~ Louise Gluck

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Quoted from Louise Gluck, "Nostos" in Meadowlands (Ecco/HarperCollins, 1996), p. 43

Louise Gluck (1943-2023), American Poet and Essayist; Winner, 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2003-2004

Profile at The Noble Prize

Resource Guide at Library of Congress

Obituary at The New York Times