quotations about today
Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have. So spend it wisely.
KAY LYONS
attributed, Woman's Day, August 2011
To be alive today is to know there is a crack in the cosmic egg, to know something more-than-new pecks and pushes its way into our consciousness. To be alive today is to open our hearts, blessing those who tremble and retreat as the old dies and re-manifests in new form.
ANNA GROSSNICKLE HINES
"Cosmic Hatching", Sweetly Alive
Today likes to happen before tonight. Impatient, I guess.
JAROD KINTZ
At Even One Penny, This Book Would Be Overpriced
Tomorrow is the reaping of today.
SAMUEL WILLIAM PARTRIDGE
Lever Lines for Spare Minutes
Today always looks mean to the thoughtless; but today is a king in disguise.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
The Complete Works of William Dean Howells
Here today, gone tomorrow.
ENGLISH PROVERB
My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired,
And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door;
So I have built Today, the day that I desired,
Lest joy come not again, lest peace return no more.
STELLA BENSON
"The Secret Day", Twenty
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN
"Imitation of Horace"
Reality is a staircase neither up nor down, we don't move, today is today, always is today,
always the sound of trains that depart each night towards night,
the resort to toothless words,
the boring through of the wall, the comings and goings, reality shutting doors,
putting in commas, the punctuation of time
OCTAVIO PAZ
"Is there no way out?", Selected Poems
Today is a gift from God -- that is why it is called the present.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
Today is ours; what do we fear?
Today is ours: we have it here.
Let's treat it kindly, that it may
Wish at least with us to stay.
ANACREON
"Ode XIV", Odes
I wish it to be today, always, one hour
On this, the pleasant side of history
DOUGLAS DUNN
New and Selected Poems
You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you'll never know.
JERRY SPINELLI
Love, Stargirl
Tomorrow is not here, but today is present. New adventures to embark upon and a different road to travel Deciding which way to go will not be easy, considering we 've never gone this way before.
KENNETH MORGAN
"Today", Poems of Inspiration: Inspiration and Meditational Thoughts
Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny!
STEVE MARABOLI
attributed, Broken Chains: How I Broke the Cycle of Abuse and Neglect and Went from Victim to Survivor
Today will die tomorrow.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
"The Garden of Proserpine"
Some say
Today
Is all there ever will be so I'll stay
Today
Message to the one
Step into the sun
Remember all the days
That disappeared like rain
JESSE CLEGG
"Today"
Dust settles. Our trust is newly renovated
like faucets, since fate's set that way, and today--
never happening--feels no more an impostor
than the rest of us, something not to be looked
on as anything but what fell between a casualty
of sorts. Woods or wares, as it were.
ADAM FITZGERALD
"The Relay Station", The Late Parade
Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.
GERALD LAWSON SITTSER
A Grace Disguised
Yesterday is there
But today always wins
Everlastingly.
My own superiority
Trumpeted from the towers
of my crumbling body.
DANIEL JUPP
"Sequence 1", Poems Sequence