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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Literature of the Heart; It Commences Where Speech Ends

Posted on August 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” – Alphonse de LaMartine

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Thought For the Day: Let Us Remember That Wisdom Is the True Salt of Literature, and the Books That Are Most Nourishing Are Richly Stored With It

Posted on December 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.” – John Morley, … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Silence Is Only Frightening To People Who Are Compulsively Verbalizing

Posted on November 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” – William S. Burroughs, The Job Interviews With William S. Burroughs — In all his phases and evolutions, William S. Burroughs was perhaps more radical than most of the Beat … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: People Who Love Literature Have At Least Part of Their Minds Immune From Indoctrination. If You Read, You Can Learn To Think For Yourself

Posted on October 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.” – Doris Lessing

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Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creature

Posted on October 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creatureby Michael DoyleThough literary snobs can find it less than delectableScience Fiction has grown up as quiet respectableSnobbery has ever been fashionable even at HalloweenStill science fiction’s limitations certainly don’t meanThat there is nothing really scary … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Literature Is Strewn With the Wreckage of Men Who Have Minded Beyond Reason the Opinions of Others

Posted on February 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” – Virginia Woolf

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Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

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The Eye of the Storm

Posted on September 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Eye of the Stormby Michael DoyleTo find the eye of the passing storm in life’s wildernessIs to find quiet hope in the chaos approached in the stillnessWhere the arts find our attention despite all life’s distractionsThe place where somehow … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Knowledge Is, In Every Country, The Surest Basis of Public Happiness

Posted on May 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.” – George Washington, First Annual Message, 1790

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Thought For the Day: Jokes of the Proper Kind, Properly Told, Can Do More To Enlighten Questions of Politics, Philosophy, and Literature Than Any Number of Dull Arguments

Posted on March 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” – Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

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