Entry 102

Dreams-A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Erich Fromm

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran


There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Francis Kennedy

To all you with the guns out there. You may be able to slay the dreamer, but you haven't slain the dream.
Robert Francis Kennedy

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there
plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Entry 101

Always be a poet, even in prose.
Baudlaire

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Baudlaire

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Baudlaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Baudlaire

Entry 100

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
Jewish saying

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb


Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
Spanish Proverb

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

Entry 99

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
Lord Byron

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron

Entry 98

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Plato

The good is the beautiful.
Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Entry 97

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Arthur C. Clarke

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Montesquieu

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg

Entry 96

Being a poet is not a career, it's a life. Writing poems is not a career

but a lifetime of looking into, and listening to, how words see.

Philip Booth

You must let the poem speak to you; you must let the poem tell you

how it wants to be. Your being is already part of what the poem is coming

to be; its being is continually part of who you are as you open yourself

to write.

Philip Booth

Entry 95

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Charles Lamb

Entry 94

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

John le Carre

Nature is the art of God.

Dante

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante

Entry 93

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Steve Allen

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

Steve Allen