Harry Crosby says,

Let us each tattoo a rising sun on our heart.

Andre Gide says,

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Soren Kierkegaard says,

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Henry Miller says,

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Emily Dickinson says,

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

William Blake says,

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

AVQ and Stylus

AVQ and Stylus have just laid some lovely pages of freshly inked verse on the virtual table.

Vampire Weekend

A song for Monday afternoon

James Joyce says,

He goes back, weary of the creation he has piled up to hide him from himself, an old dog licking an old sore. But, because loss is his gain, he passes on towards eternity in undiminished personality, untaught by the the wisdom he has written or by the laws he has revealed.

William Faulkner says,

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion.

Joseph Conrad says,

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Niccolo Machiavelli says,

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

John Ruskin says,

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Sinclair Lewis writes,

Alexander Pope writes,