Today’s One-Liner (#221)
This is the Akhmatova who, in a friend’s words, could not bear to see another person’s suffering, though she bore her own without complaint. –D. M. Thomas, Introduction to his translation of Anna Akhmatova, Selected…
Category: Poets
Today’s One-Liner (#218)
Practice resurrection. –Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
Appreciation Is the Sacrament
Now the preaching of St. Francis was on this wise: “My sisters the birds, much are ye beholden unto God your creator, and alway and in every place ought ye to praise Him, because He…
Today’s One-Liner (#165)
These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the restIs prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action. –T. S. Eliot, Dry Salvages
God’s Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oilCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?Generations…
A Poet’s Life
Yankev Glatshteyn worked in over fifty sweatshops. –Janet Hadda, Yankev Glatshteyn
Today’s One-Liner (#80)
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. –Wisława Szymborską, Nobel Lecture
Maniacal Obstinacy
I often wonder whether I have in me a single gene or drop off blood inherited from my biblical ancestors, or even from the ghettos of the old Spanish and German cities. Who knows, perhaps…
Today’s One-Liner (#23)
Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles happen. –Wislawa Szymborska, “Miracle Fair”
Containing Multitudes
Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.) –Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 53 [Soen Nakagawa] had many faces: he was a simple monk, a “crazy wisdom” Zen master,…