Thought For The Day

[Paul Whybrow]

The wisest of wise men knows that he knows not; only a fool thinks he knows.

Spanish proverb

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The poet is a faker
Who’s so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact.

Fernando Pessoa

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Fame is a bee.
It has a song -
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist​

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,
So, in the end, he could not change the tragic habits
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

Robert Graves

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[Andy D]

Shame not to see you at the social last night Paul! Hope you’re well?

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I'm doing fine, thanks for asking, Andy. I'm too acclimatised to self-isolating after 11 years of it. I should socialise more.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

Roy T. Bennett

 

[Steve C]

I knew there was something missing in my day but couldn't put my finger on it - now I know!
Paul you are late posting! over 9 hours by my reckoning. This will not do! Please be more considerate to those who await your missives every day.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I knew there was something missing in my day but couldn't put my finger on it - now I know!
Paul you are late posting! over 9 hours by my reckoning. This will not do! Please be more considerate to those who await your missives every day.

Glad I've got an addict, Steve. I uploaded a year's worth of daily Thoughts of the Day, after Agent Pete gave me access to how to do so, but somehow I missed one or two.

 

[Steve C]

Paul. I'll forgive you this once but don't let it happen again.
Seriously though it is a nice idea and I am sure I'm not the only one who reads them. Keep em coming

 

[Katie-Ellen]

I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Edward Albee

There speaks a writer. Hits the nail right on the head.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Inside my empty bottle, I was constructing a lighthouse, while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

 

[Steve C]

Inside my empty bottle lives the breath of a worried man. Is there a full one in the fridge?

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment – the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

 

[Steve C]

I've had a few moments but I'm still not sure who I am. I suspect the big one may come a few seconds before I die. Ah, I get it! then zzzzzzz

 

[CageSage]

I am a nomad, a wanderer, an observer of life in all its forms. At least for today.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Poetry can tell us what human beings are. It can tell us why we stumble and fall and how, miraculously, we can stand up.

Maya Angelou

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

T.S. Eliot

 

[Steve C]

96 days to go then I'm officially decrepit. Great

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The secret of good old age is simply an honourable pact with solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[Steve C]

I'm sorry but I disagree. The secret is more to do with the company of loved ones. I'm fine with my own company but I need loved ones hovering around and someone to have the occasional beer with.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The real definition of loneliness...is to live without responsibility.

Nadine Gordimer

 

[Paul Whybrow]

“Hope” is the thing with feathers​

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Emily Dickinson

 

[Paul Whybrow]

If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.

Rachel Carson

 

[Paul Whybrow]

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favour.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Writers don’t need love; all they require is money.

John Osborne

 

[Salma Eljahrani]

I don't love for the sake of love, I love to write a story.