The impatient shout of a thrush
A few years ago I noted Keats' delight in a thrush in his garden, and so found a kindred...
To see at a distance
Thoreau has many striking things to say about poets, and even if I can't seize on them as definitive or...
Waking like a bullet
While I don't relish bullets striking things, I like the occasional quickness of a sleep-satiated body waking up, alert to...
The thoughts of a pig
A wonderfully involved tail of a pig's escape and eventual recapture.
Firstly, a protracted endeavour to find him, eventually discovered...
Contorted as …
Never thought of caterpillars as contorted, but I like the simile. Hope you do too, and the image I used....
Heroic journals
All laud to Labaume, going to such heroic lengths to write his journal. I will have to introduce this makeshift...
The heart of a rock
Having commented on the inaccessibility of rocks to the human spirit, Thoreau points out how much softer they can...
Schoolboy sketches
Maurice Cramer was a Geneva schoolboy who joined his classmates in August 1870 for a school trip to discover Champéry. ...
Journal of joy
A delightful definition of journals, by one of history's most assiduous journal writers. A quote to share at the start...
Like the lowing of a cow
Nature's hoarse summer voice? Â Wind shuffling leaves and crickets rubbing hands together? Â I like the metaphor, but nevertheless can't quite...
The past as a concertina of time
I collect comments on and perceptions of time. This one is striking and I am as guilty of it as...
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