This will be a better world when the power of love replaces the love of power. -Jimi Hendrix

— Great Connections (@ilovequotebooks) August 5, 2013

Hendrix makes an awfully nice pairing with these lines from Martin Buber.

We cannot avoid using power
Cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world
So let us
Mighty in diction
And powerful in contradiction
Love powerfully

"Becoming an English major means pursuing the most important subject of all—being a human being." http://t.co/An2i9ORpRO via @chronicle

— Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) August 5, 2013

Something strangely satisfying about reading this while I'm wearing a Professional Organization of English Majors t-shirt.

Wonderful image: Monet on the footbridge he painted so often, 1922. More info: http://t.co/qsMPJPzjvY http://t.co/nwVbS8TmeA

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) August 5, 2013

My affection for Monet's paintings has been noted before. Seeing this photograph is a real treat.

How one company revolutionized health care by making scheduling a doctor's appointment as easy as ordering a pizza http://t.co/kOY2ofY1Eq

— The Verge (@verge) August 5, 2013

Includes 21-minute video. 

Brain Pickings treats us to the only known recording of Virginia Woolf, here set to music by composer Brian Mark.

 

The transcript shows this lovely passage

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations — naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today — that they are so stored with meanings, with memories, that they have contracted so many famous marriages.