Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, crow voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever,
Mary Oliver • Dream Work
When he talked, he was lawyer and bard and crossroads charlatan at once, arguing his case, entertaining, pulling back the veil to show you the secrets of the world.
Madeline Miller • CIRCE
Wherever humanity is he would have us face it and make something of it,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
In him the animal man chiefly was developed. In physical endurance and contentment he was cousin to the pine and the rock. I asked him once if he was
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (Illustrated)
Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Mark Twain famously said “the difference between the almost right word and the right word . . . ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Speak your truth quietly and clearly