Quote of the Day

"My goal in life is to be an echo."

~Matthew Schmeer, editor of Poetry Midwest

I think the quote is really cool.  To be an echo, to be something that reverberates and lasts beyond the initial saying/moment.  Though, on the downside, to be an echo is to be only a repetition of something else, and usually and incomplete one at that. But still, my cool quote of the day.

Quote of the Day

"Please, for the love of God, proofread. A typo we can understand, but a complete and utter lack of the basic tenets of grammar is an affront to human decency."

I stole this from Jersey Devil Press's submission guidelines <http://www.jerseydevilpress.com/submissions/>. It made me chuckle and nod my head in understanding. I have received sample reviews from potential reviewers so full of grammar mistakes and typos it was horrible. If I had been the author and was submitting something like that for publication and as proof of my ability, I would be ashamed.

Quote of the Day

"Some people don't want to be compassionate. They want to be right."
~Unknown

But really, you know people who want to be right, all the time whether they are or not. So, what does this mean exactly? What does compassion and being right have to do with one another? I am not exactly sure. Maybe that's why I thought the quote was cool, all the different interpretations a person could get out of it.