ACreativeLife

Grinch . . .

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. "

Dr. Seuss - Famous-Quotes-And-Quotations-co

 

Tapeworms . . .

"Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other."

                John Updike - American Write (born 1932)

The Secret . . .

"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."

                George Bernard Shaw

Life . . .

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Live is about creating yourself."

                 George Bernard Shaw

Why Not?

"You see things and you say, "Why?"  But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?""
                George Bernard Shaw

Tragedies . . .

"There are two tragedies in life:  one is not getting what one wants, an the other is getting it."

                Oscar Wilde

Defeat . . .

"Man is not made for defeat."

                  Ernest Hemingway

None Of Their Business . . .

"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write.  Let them think you were born that way."

                Ernest Hemingway

If . . .

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

               Ernest Hemingway

I Love Sleep . . .

"I love sleep.  My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

                Ernest Hemingway

The Possible's . . .

"The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the imagination."

                 Emily Dickinson

Time Is The Only Coin . . .

"Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

                Carl Sandburg

Used it all . . .

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"."

                 Erma Bombeck

Vanity . . .

"How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live."

             Henry David Thoreau

Be True . . .

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

             Henry David Thoreau

Don't Think . . .

"Don't think.  Thinking is the enemy of creativity.  It's self-concious, and anything self-concious is lousy.  You can't try to do things.  You simply must do things."

 Ray Bradbury - American science-fiction short stories & novels writer

Lunatic, Lover & the Poet . . .

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

                William Shakespeare

Imagination . . .

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

                Mark Twain

Good Advice . . .

"If you don't like something, change it.  If you can't change it, change your attitude.  Don't complain."

               Maya Angelou

Faith . . .

"Faith is a passionate intuition."

                 William Wordsworth

Deception . . .

"We are never deceived.  We deceive ourselves."

         Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German Playwright, Novelist, Dramatist - 1749-1832

World's Mystery . . .

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

                 Oscar Wilde - from 1001 Meditations by Mike George

Early Spring . . .

I heard a thousand blended notes
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man.

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,
The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopp'd and play'd,
Their thoughts I cannot measure,—
But the least motion which they made
It seem'd a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What Man has made of Man?

William Wordsworth

Spring . . .

"Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year."

Robert Frost

March Madness . . .

"A little madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the king."

Emily Dickinson

A Kitten . . .

"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it."

                   Henry David Thoreau

Luck and Writing . . .

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can.  Sometimes I'm have good luck and write better than I can."

               Ernest Hemingway

The Test . . .

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed idea in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

               F. scott Fitzgerald

Life . . .

"Life is no brief candle to me.  It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of at the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

            George Bernard Shaw    

Dust Of Snow . . .

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of the day I rued . . .

Robert Frost

Frienship . . .

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

               Mark Twain