Two Thoughts (26 February - 4 March)
Sunday 26 February
Two thoughts from Arthur Rimbaud:
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
Monday 27 February
Two thoughts from Louis-Ferdinand Céline:
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
“When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.”
Tuesday 28 February
Two thoughts from Thomas Wolfe:
“Don’t let them slow you down. Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
Wednesday 1 March
Two thoughts from Tristan Tzara:
“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”
“The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.”
Thursday 2 March
Two thoughts from Federico García Lorca:
"I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads"
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
Friday 3 March
Two thoughts from Scott Newstok:
“My conviction is that education must be about thinking—not training a set of specific skills.”
“Thinking like Shakespeare untangles a host of today’s confused — let’s be blunt, just plain wrong — educational binaries”
Saturday 4 March
Two thoughts from Cheryl Strayed:
“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding”
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...”
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