Wendell Berry, “A Meeting”

In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: "How you been?"
He grins and looks at me.
"I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees."

Jeff Buchanan, in writers room

"I don't watch movies to read."

Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”

…

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.  I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down  into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,  how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,  which is what I have been doing all day.  Tell me, what else should I have done?  Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?  Tell me, what is it you plan to do  with your one wild and precious life?

Albert Einstein, quoted by Sam Goldbach age 11.99999

I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Stella Gibbons, forward to Cold Comfort Farm

Far be it from me to pretend that the following pages achieve what first burned in my mind with pure lambency ten years ago. Which of us does? But the thing's done! Ecco! E finito! And such as it is, for what it's worth, it is yours.

Edsger Dijkstra

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Semi https://blinkingtwelve.blogspot.com

Alex Cameron 'Stranger's Kiss (Duet with Angel Olsen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4C-Lw-YaWg

Mrs. Prouty, writing to Sylvia Plath

…the person who wants to write enough will make time. So will you. But I hope you won't have to make it at dawns, before breakfast. Someone remarked to me after reading your poem in th eAtlantic — 'How intense.' Sometime write me a little poem that isn't intense. A lamp turned too high might shatter its chimney. Please just glow sometimes.

In Katey Rich's "Titanic’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery Involves a Conga Line, P.C.P., and an Unidentified Chowder" - Vanity Fair

[James] Cameron remembers a Russian-Canadian P.A., who was working as a translator on set, summing it up succinctly: "I feel toxic and beside myself."
 

Jeff Tweedy (podcast with Ezra Klein)

Exercise the muscle that pushes the ego out of the way.

W.E.B. Du Bois letter to his daughter

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin—the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world. 

Don't shrink from new experiences and custom. Take the cold bath bravely. Enter into the spirit of your big bedroom. Enjoy what is and not pine for what is not. 

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. Make yourself do unpleasant things, so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

Brandon Taylor, “Massachusetts holy ghost”

Ask not for whom the hand claps back for it claps back at you.