153rd.

"Where art thou going so fast, old year, Where art thou going so fast? There's a tremulous sigh in the midnight air, There are requiem whispers of wild despair - Chant they a dirge for the past, old year, The shadowy, vanished past?" - Mrs. C. I. Baker




Photo is "Goodbye My Lover" - from !korny-pnk.

152nd.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana




Photo is "The Danger of Repetition" - from Suilenroc.

151st.

"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." - H.L. Mencken




Photo is "Human Error" - from X-Nine.

150th.

"Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one." - S. E. Hinton




Photo is "Ode to the Teenage Boy" - from StoryDreamer.

149th.

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden




Photo is "Dreamer" - from pachylla.

148th.

"Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered." - Robert A. Dahl




Photo is "Granted" - from ro0ies.

147th.

"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." - Jimmy Cannon




Photo is "Christmas" - from Abakum.

146th.

"According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time." - Grazia Deledda




Photo is "Preserved" - from theFouro.

145th.

"We are often more treacherous through weakness than through calculation." - Francois de la Rochefoucauld




Photo is "Stab my back" - from Lost InThe Shadows.

144th.

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide




Photo is "Seeking Truth" - from whyteshadow.

143rd.

"I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore." - Georgia O'Keeffe




Photo is "Lesbian" - from icentaurus.

142nd.

"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." - Andy Warhol




Photo is "The Cure Is Love" - from TheAbbieScreams.

141st.

"Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men." - Rembrandt van Rijn




Photo is "Sincerity" - from PatrickRuegheimer.

140th.

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner." - Henri Matisse




Photo is "Run Away" - from Belsebumsan.

139th.

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." - Claude Monet




Photo is "Flash of Color" - from mrcool256.

138th.

"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior." - Frida Kahlo




Photo is "Drown Myself" - from Redeemer of Light.

137th.

"The sleep of reason produces monsters." - Francisco de Goya




Photo is "The Sleep of Reason..." - from TexelGirl.

136th.

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see." - Rene Magritte




Photo is "Hidden Realm" - from emmil.

135th.

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since." - Salvador Dali




Photo is Rule the World" - Tangerinegreen1986.

134th.

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions." - Pablo Picasso




Photo is Primary Emotions" - from lilchrissyb.

133rd.

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent van Gogh




Photo is "Night" - from 13Mirror.

132nd.

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." - Michelangelo Buonarroti




Photo is The Fight for Mastery" - from ahermin.

131st.

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." - Leonardo da Vinci




Photo is "Opinions Demotivational Poster" - from jarredspekter.

130th.

"My friends are those that criticize me to my face and praise me behind my back." - Carlos Fonseca




Photo is "Let's be Friends" - from scatterherz.

129th.

"Your anger charms me, and yet all the time I think of chaste, slight hands, veined snow." - Hilda Doolittle




Photo is "Hands BW" - from TEcHNOpl.

128th.

"Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read." - Raymond Carver




Photo is "Read" - from selfhaircuts.

127th.

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water." - Gwendolyn Brooks




Photo is "Sky" - from jteh.

126th.

"I sit in my chair all day and work and work Measuring words against each other. I open the piano and play a tune But find it does not say what I feel, I grow tired of measuring words against each other, I grow tired of these four walls, And I think of you." - Conrad Aiken




Photo is "Miss You" - from Anarchsoul.

125th.

"Death is not the final word. Without ears, my father still listens, still shrugs his shoulders whenever I ask a question he doesn't want to answer ... Without eyes, my father still looks around. He sees what I am trying to do, sees that I have grown less passive with his passing, understands my need for answers only he can provide." - Lisa Zaran




Photo is "Death Is" - from er0k.

124th.

"It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it as the same time." - William Carlos Williams




Photo is "Belief" - from Masterwks.

123rd.

"I stayed on to warm up the ink in which I drown and to listen to my alternative cavern, tactile nights, abstracted days. The unknown shuddered in my tonsil and I creaked from an annual melancholy, solar nights, lunar days, Parisian sunsets. And still, this very day, at nightfall, I digest the most scared certainties, maternal nights, great-granddaughter days, bicolored, voluptuous, urgent, lovely." - Cesar Vallejo




Photo is "Parisian Sunset" - from hello-taipan.

122nd.

"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed." - Sara Teasdale




Photo is "Curious Thought in a Bell Jar" - from Emerald-Magpie.

121st.

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." - Shel Silverstein




Photo is "The Giving Tree" - from o0alexOo.

120th.

"I might show the facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away." -Christina Rossetti




Photo is "Blind" - from ReeEjKa.

119th.

"The test of whether it's poetry is: does it sound beautiful when you say the words over, in your mind or your voice, with no skilled performer, no music, just the sounds and meanings in the words themselves." - Robert Pinsky




Photo is "Sound And Vision" - from SoundVsVision.

118th.

"I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression." - Sharon Olds




Photo is "Newspaper" - from hamstergeddon.

117th.

"I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm." - Ogden Nash




Photo is "Seduction" - from BeautyOfDark.

116th.

"How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious." - Lisel Mueller




Photo is "The Day Awakens" - from Lomeafaer.

115th.

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish." - Federico Garcia Lorca




Photo is "Big City Nights" - from Zen-Master.

114th.

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong




Photo is 'Winter's Advice" - from intao.

113th.

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" - John Keats




Photo is "Pain" - from HaydnTaylorArt.

112th.

"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." - George Eliot




Photo is "Despair" - from tootas31.

111th.

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." - Allen Ginsberg




Photo is "Moonlight" - from dgheban.

110th.

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs." - Emily Dickinson




Photo is "Mausoleum Window" - from ten-tackles.

109th.

"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty." - Aleister Crowley




Photo is "Project - Red As Blood" - from quinteros-lama.

108th.

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home." - Gwendolyn Brooks




Photo is "Wrists Hurt in Color" - from stabstabstab.

107th.

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin




Photo is "Is George W Bush Dumb or Evil" - from BenHeine.

106th.

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand




Photo is "Sin" - from AureolusNoctilus.

105th.

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." - Eric Hoffer




Photo is "Three" - from artist unknown.

104th.

"Each person shines with her or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people's flames are so still they don't even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burst nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can't look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire." - Eduardo Galeano




Photo is "The Peace Within" - from christians.