Caffeinated Art
Coffee is a very personal part of a person’s life. Having a “way you take your coffee” is as much an indication of the crossing over into adulthood as a first broken heart. Even when psychically rudderless and adrift, awaking to morning in one of those blank margins of one’s life, there is always the next start, a new start—in that first cup of coffee. Coffee is the one nonjudgemental friend who never betrays.
“Coffee makes us severe and grave and philosophical.”
– Jonathan Swift
“He was my cream, and I was his coffee —
And when you poured us together, it was something.”
– Josephine Baker
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Coffee is a hug in a mug.”
– Author Unknown
“I think if I were a woman I’d wear coffee as a perfume.”
– John Van Druten
“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.”
– Abigail Reynolds, In Pemberley by the Sea
“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand