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March 10, 2013March 10, 2013

What Will Bring You Rest

The last two weeks have been trying but as I believe in these words to live by, I wanted to share them with you. Thanks for everyone’s thoughts.

July 15, 2012July 15, 2012

Quote From Henry David Thoreau

“To affect the quality of the day. That is the highest of the arts.”

Henry David Thoreau

May 9, 2012

‘If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?’

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honored authors of fiction in recent history. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award seven times, winning twice.

While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she is also a poet, having published 15 books of poetry to date.^[1]^[2] Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age.^[3] Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper’s, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works.

If you haven’t gotten acquainted with this author, you should. She has written so much I find she is quite prolific, more than I had thought. I have read her Science Fiction but have not yet touched on her poetry. I was surprised to find she wrote poetry first. So, now I must go in search to see what I can find.

March 31, 2012

Quote by Lewis Carroll

One of my favorite authors is Lewis Carroll and I love this quote I found by him. Hope you enjoy! Below I have given a brief bio of him and also am image of one of the pictures that can be seen from the book Alice in Wonderland.

When I use a word…it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less….The question is…which is to be master — that’s all.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand.