3. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”— William Wordsworth 4. “Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or not...
But he goes on to say, and this is the quote, "If we pose the question at another level, not in respect of individual propositions, but in relation to," quoting him, "the will to truth that has survived across so many centuries of European history, if we ask what has been in its ...
Thank you Inda. I have missed the Rumis. Nice image. Sue 2005/3/21下午12:28 ️0 Vicky2Member Dear Inda, thank you for posting the Rumi. Like Sue I have missed this classic poetry. Love Vicky 2005/3/21下午12:53 ️0 GiseleMember Thank you Inda. I love Rumi. I am glad ...
I’m really sorry for the offense this may cause, but that God is a sociopath and anyone who believes literally in and is loyal to this version of God (rather than holding it as mythological truth), is endorsing sociopathic ideas and behaviors. The brand of militant Christianity emerges wh...
As far back as the 1940s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs would spend extended sabbaticals in the pretty but gritty port city of Tangier (writing poetry and taking full advantage of the region’s laissez-faire attitude towards sex tourism). Then, of course, the first-wave hippi...
The truth is something entirely different. The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it. But before I come back to the present I would like to look at the recent past, by which I mean United States foreign policy sinc...
With its often literal poetry, its sensitive empathy and its crystalline prose, The Wren, The Wren is that rarest of novels: the complex work that reads easily at first, but which rewards each further inspection. It is neither over-complicated nor over-simplified, moves swiftly without passing...
I had dabbled in poetry off and on over the years, and I found myself writing again in the form of short tributes to Jason. There were times when feelings just started pouring out of me and flowing onto the paper. It surprised me how it seemed to relieve some of the pressure that ...
If you know, that quote needs no explanation. Grief is a chronic beast. It doesn’t ask permission on when and how to show up. It doesn’t care about your plans or your previous resilience…because each year, moment, memory is different. While the memories themselves do not change, what...
I would be more forgiving, but Garber has been published by a major imprint; or, am I just too old to appreciate a writing style that is meant to appeal to thirteen-year-old girls, who think it’s poetry? (Heaven help us.) Caraval is a world in which virtually everything looks, fe...