Hesse on wonder, bell hooks on the margin, Camus’s three antidotes to the absurd, Amelia Earhart on cake: one line each, each with its source.
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Nick Cave reads Maria Popova's poem, animated by Daniel Bruson
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The everyday human gesture is always a heartbeat away from the miraculous
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War is declared again every morning — and continuing it is its own guilt
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Paint all the more, and the voice goes quiet
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How a broken line of communication gets repaired
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A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today, on his birthday
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Confirmed: from her 1965 novel The Red and the Green
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One trait, two names — depending on who has it
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Against the myth of the tortured genius
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A standard for a life: live loud enough that your absence registers
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Taste is a rut, and the way out is to disagree with yourself
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From his 2008 novel Little Brother, not a stray aphorism
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The hardest battle, and never stopping
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From Cities of the Plain, closing the Border Trilogy
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Both save us from actually thinking
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Gravity's Rainbow on misdirection as power
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Wisława Szymborska on why Andersen's frightening fairy tales were right
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Dostoyevsky, in a Siberian letter, on a friend who was saddened where others raged
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David Bowie's creative credo, from a 1997 interview
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The purpose of a system is what it does
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"All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured"
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From The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
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The philosopher who thought outdoors, ten hours a day
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D.H. Lawrence on the daisy outlasting the Pyramids
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Today's A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today, on Freud's birthday
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From Earth House Hold (1969), via The Marginalian
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On schools that teach counting and measuring over delight
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From Poetry, via The Marginalian
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On openness as a precondition for being good
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At 93, still finding life more fascinating
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A 1932 award speech that turned a backhanded compliment into a rebuttal
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