Quotes of the Week
26 May to June 1, 2024
Image description: fuchsia peonies about to bloom in front of a stonewall and an orange brick house with a window showing “open”.
Here are the quotes that have helped sustain me through the week. I hope you find some comfort, interest and inspiration herein. Thank you to all who have shared these or written these wonderful words of wisdom.
Sunday
You can’t be stuck in the way you’ve always done things.
One of the “Golden Girls” from CBC’s the National, “Ageing in Place in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities” broadcast on Friday, May 24, 2024.
Monday
[…] learning to handle a sword effectively comes down to understanding the principles that have been serving fencers in this tradition for centuries. When I execute a technique correctly, it works, because of course it works. It’s geometry. This is also a useful reminder for writing and all creative work; we can replace ego-oriented questions like Am I a good enough writer to pull off this scene? with more useful questions like What techniques might help me accomplish my goals in this scene? Kate Heartfield, “Writing with Swords.”
Tuesday
Film is a medium that can contain a lot of things. For instance, in poetry you cannot put a film or a painting or a photograph, well a photograph maybe, but in a film, you can put poetry, you see. So I see cinema as an ocean where all these kinds of rivers can become the ocean so to speak, they lose themselves. So I see cinema where you can put a photograph or a poem or whatever it is, some images from the internet, and it still remains cinematic.
from Roger Ebert’s interview with Radu Jude, director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.
Wednesday
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
Jacqueline Woodson
Thursday
Aging has allowed me to see and claim the power of my own survival.
Jeannine Ouellette, This is 56: Author and Writing Instructor Jeannine Ouellette Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
Friday
The Thing Is by Ellen Bass via Jeannine Oullette’s interview in Oldster Magazine.
Saturday
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac
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