James Joyce On History

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
— James Joyce, Ulysses

All Art Is Confession

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
— James Baldwin

Be Bold

Go at it boldly, and you’ll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
— Basil King

Confessions

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
— James Baldwin

Honest Trees

I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.
— Jeffrey McDaniel

Surrender

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

More than Tree

and so the root
becomes a trunk
and then a tree
and seeds of trees
and springtime sap
and summer shade
and autumn leaves
and shape of poems
and dreams
and more than tree.
— Langston Hughes

The Discomfort of Thought

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
— John F. Kennedy

Go Vote

Go vote; it’ll make you feel big and strong.
— Wisdom from Bob Schieffer's Mom