 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
–Henry David Thoreau |
 Snow Globe |
Category: Poetry
Feb 01 2011
Muse in the Morning
Jan 31 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
–Mark Twain |
 Fuzzy 3 |
Jan 28 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
–Alexis de Tocqueville |
 Fuzzy 2 |
Jan 27 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
–Friedrich Nietzsche |
 Fuzzy 1 |
Jan 26 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
–James Baldwin |
 Masque 5 |
Jan 24 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Masque 3 |
Jan 21 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
–Alastair Reid |
 Pink and Blue 5 |
Jan 18 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| “To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
–Irving Wallace |
 Pink and Blue 4 |
Jan 14 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
–Jane Rule |
 Four Winds 5 |
Jan 13 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
–Peter Ustinov |
 Four Winds 4 |
Jan 12 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
–H. P. Lovecraft |
 Four Winds 3 |
Jan 11 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
–Jacob Bronowski |
 Four Winds 2 |