Prompts

By Jo Taylor

Quote by Marc Chagall

In our life there is a single colour, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the colour of love.

Quote by Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass. I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign’d by God’s name. Prompt: Where do you see God? or  Where do you find His letters?  And what do these letters say?  You might...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. From The Old Man and the Sea  

Quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is “charged with the grandeur of God." Exposed I marvel at the egret, her charm and elegance, her pristine plumage as white as moonlight, and daring. At her long, jet-black legs slippered in chicory as she moves serenely and elegantly among banks, peering...

Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals know. - Orleana in The Poisonwood Bible

Quote by John Steinbeck

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past? From The Grapes of Wrath Prompt:  The women packing up to leave their homes lament that they can take very little of their belongings with them to California. While the men are saying,...