Saturday, November 28, 2009

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.

Friday, November 27, 2009

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.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

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.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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.

Monday, November 23, 2009

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.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

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.