February 2012
1 post
Forgive me, far-off wars, for carrying my flowers home. Forgive me, open wounds,...
– Wislawa Szymborska
January 2012
5 posts
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
– Chinua Achebe
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there’s a feeling of...
– Jessica Hagedorn
December 2011
9 posts
I’m a cork on the ocean, floating over the raging sea. How deep is the...
– Brian Wilson
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
– Rosa Luxemburg
November 2011
10 posts
If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best...
– George Bernard Shaw
Man never understands that the cities he has built are not an integral part of...
– Vasily Grossman
October 2011
10 posts
Whoever enter forest leave behind the open world.
– William J. Pomeroy
We are as real as the forest and the flowers and the trees and the stream.
– Dul, Tasaday tribeswoman
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to...
– John Granville
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
7 posts
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this...
– Yoshida KenkÅ
June 2011
9 posts
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
– Ernest Hemingway