“Then one can’t make a living out of poetry?”
“Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.”
“Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t.”
Jack London
Tag: Quote of the Day
08AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
The great driving force of the oligarchs is the belief that they are doing right.
Jack London
07AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.
Jack London
06AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
05AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Friedrich von Logau
04AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
They should always be heard, and fairly and kindly answer’d, when they ask after any thing they would know, and desire to be informed about. Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
John Locke
03AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
02AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in. For it is easy to observe, that many young men continue longer in thought and conversation of school-boys than otherwise they would, because their parents keep them at that distance, and in that low rank, by all their carriage to them.
John Locke
01AUG2023 – Quote of the Day
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
John Locke
31JUL2023 – Quote of the Day
I doubt not but one great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports, and trifle away all their time insipidly, is, because they have found their curiosity baulk’d, and their inquiries neglected. But had they been treated with more kindness and respect, and their questions answered, as they should, to their satisfaction; I doubt not but that they would have taken more pleasure in learning, and improving their knowledge, wherein there would still be newness and variety, which is what they are delighted with, than in returning over and over to the same play and play-things.
John Locke