Vincent Van Gogh

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]

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Jane Kenyon

The poet’s job is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it; to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name.† The poet’s job is to find a name for [...]

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John Stuart Mill

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in society has always been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage which it contained. That so few [people] now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our times. (John Stuart Mill, [...]

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Kay Ryan

Restoration knows no half measure. (Restoration – a poem by Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate)

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Jay Howard and John Streck

In focusing on individual belief, evangelicals have necessarily focused on individuals…poverty, hunger, abortion, drug abuse, and other such issues are thus approached as personal failings rather than social problems. Systemic elements simply aren’t included in the equation. (Jay Howard and John Streck from Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music)

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