Quote:- The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.--from "Insomniac", written April 1961
The Collected Poems
Author:- Sylvia Plath
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The Noah figure in this version of the story is named Xisouthros (instead of Zisudra). A god visits him in a dream, warns him that humanity is about to be destroyed in a terrible deluge, and orders him to build a huge boat of the usual dimensions in the usual way. So far this is all very familiar, but then comes a feature not found in the other versions of the tradition. The god tells Xisouthros that he is to gather up a collection of precious tablets inscribed with sacred wisdom and to bury these in a safe place deep underground in 'Sippar, the City of the Sun'. These tablets contained 'all the knowledge that humans had been given by the gods' and Xisouthros was to preserve them so that those men and women who survived the flood would be able to 'relearn all that the gods had previously taught them'.
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
Author:- Graham Hancock
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing.It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.
Author:- Toni Morrison
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The noise of Criticism is often louder than the voice of Praise. Champions are deaf to both.
Author:- Sharat Sharma
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
Author:- Mike Norton
Category:- time
Quote:- The notion of change itself is often not the true principle concern. Search deeper.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational,time
Quote:- The notion of self-improvement is so incredibly important, and many of us do not dedicate enough time in our day to make meaningful progress in personal growth.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational,time,hope
Quote:- The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.
Author:- EM Forster
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything.
Encounter
Author:- Milan Kundera
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal
Author:- Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The number of times you fail only adds up to your strength.
Author:- Somya Kedia
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The number one question people ask writers is: Where do you get your ideas from? I've given up saying my imagination. Now I say I meet a person of restricted height named Eric in an alleyway once a month and hand him a brown envelope of cash, and he gives me the ideas. Then I tell him I'll see him the following month. People get excited when they hear this and say: 'Really???' And I say no. They hadn't noticed that I'd used my imagination again.
Author:- Stewart Stafford
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The numbers will never tell the full story of what life on Earth is all about.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author:- Hans Rosling
Category:- science
Quote:- The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
Life of Pi
Author:- Yann Martel
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Author:- Daniel Quinn
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The Ocean of Love is awaiting our return - Let's help others while we play on the shore.
Author:- Bert McCoy
Category:- Love