literary quote of the day (10-8-10)

Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself alone in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.

-Dante, "The Inferno", The Divine Comedy

literary quote of the day (10-7-10)

“You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.”

-Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize Winner, 2010)

literary quote of the day (10/5/10)

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.


-Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry"

literary quote of the day (10/4/10)

He had stuffed his own emptiness with good works like a glutton. He had ignored his own child to feed his vision of himself.

-Flannery O'Connor, "The Lame Shall Enter First"