QUOTATIONS
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“In my time, Ernest Hemingway wrote a certain kind of story better and more effectively than it had ever been done before. He was properly accepted and acclaimed. He was imitated almost slavishly by every young writer, including me, not only in America but in the world. He wrote a special kind of story out… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on March 11, 2020 In one of my favorite chess quotes, writer Edward Lasker (not to be confused with chess great Emanuel Lasker) once said, “It has been said that man is distinguished from animal in that he… Read more
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“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” — Ivan Turgenev Read more
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“He who lives in the present lives forever.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Read more
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“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.” — Alan Watts Read more
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The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, ‘What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?’ That’s the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a… Read more
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“One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don’t know what’s going to happen next.” — Bix Beiderbecke Read more
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“You can never say you don’t like a kind of music. Best you can say is that you don’t like it yet.” – John Mayer Read more
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“A chord is not a chord until the bass player decides which note to play.” ~Bill Evans Read more
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“Don’t play what’s there; play what’s not there.” – Miles Davis Read more
