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“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. “ - Sun tzu original ↗

24 Sept 2026

“The creator must always exhile himself from the creation for the creation to breath” - Sabrina Orah Mark original ↗

23 Sept 2026

"Only by living completely in the world can one learn to believe. One must abandon every attempt to make something of oneself— even to make of oneself a righteous person." Bonhoeffer via Dillard original ↗

22 Sept 2026

"Yom Kippur is...looking in the mirror and seeing what you're going to look like after you've died."original ↗

21 Sept 2026

"We eat the Buddha and spit out teeth." An Essay by Dana Levin on Charles Simic and much more original ↗

20 Sept 2026

Munch at Vassar original ↗

19 Sept 2026

"What I have learned about great writers: they were always obsessed with something, but they were very seldom obsessed with writing." Jenny Boully original ↗

18 Sept 2026

"Either life is always in an all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account." - Annie Dillard original ↗

17 Sept 2026

"To put these memories in a book, so as to be released from it... Writing as a way not to remember but to forget." Kate Zambreno original ↗

16 Sept 2026

"It wasn't until I head Billie Holiday that I realized a voice could be a collection of compensations for things you couldn't do. It could be an ingenuity." Patricia Lockwood original ↗

15 Sept 2026

"If you like surprises, being born has to be the best, / one minute swimming in nothing, and the next/ popping out into a hot late July day in New Orleans." - Barbara Hamby original ↗

14 Sept 2026

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance. - Richard Hugo original ↗

13 Sept 2026

"Her poem was called “Death,”...and her parents enlarged it, framed it and hung it in the living room." -Taffy Brodesser-Akner original ↗

12 Sept 2026

"To write with no self is irresponsible. To write with only self is irrelevant." Rachel Zucker original ↗

11 Sept 2026

"Had I chosen to tell them a true story, I would have inflicted cruelty, too." Oral History by Yiyun Li original ↗

10 Sept 2026

" I conclude now I have no / inner resources, because I am heavy bored." Berryman original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Todays fallacy: "A lot of good ideas turn into a bad idea...the fallacy of composition." Alex Tabarrock original ↗

8 Sept 2026

"Every stone says: God is very far!" - Lorca original ↗

7 Sept 2026

"his pockets heavy / with the year's coin for salt and taxes" Donald Hall original ↗

6 Sept 2026

"The pitcher cries for water to carry / and a person for work that is real." Marge Piercy original ↗

5 Sept 2026

"But they didn't fill / the desert with pyramids. / They just built some." Jennifer Michael Hecht original ↗

4 Sept 2026

"What luxury, to be so happy / that we can grieve / over imaginary lives." Lisel Mueller original ↗

3 Sept 2026

"one should never tell the story of their conversion or their vocational discernment between tea and dessert" Luke Burgis original ↗

2 Sept 2026

" Say that the leaves are harvested / when they have rotted into the mold. / Call that profit." Wendell Berry original ↗

1 Sept 2026

"In our story contest, we ask people to imagine the future, evenly distributed."original ↗

31 Aug 2026