Quote for Today: Jane Hirshfield
Ten Windows records the desire to understand others’ poems I’ve felt transfixed and transformed by: “What is a good poem doing?” “How is it done?” “Why does it work?” I want …
Ten Windows records the desire to understand others’ poems I’ve felt transfixed and transformed by: “What is a good poem doing?” “How is it done?” “Why does it work?” I want …
Who said it was a path? It could have just been artfully strewn cookies. You made it a path by following it, and assuming it had any intention. ― …
Today I bring you parallels between human existence and quantum physics as expounded by a beautiful soul, British-Iraqi drag queen, performer, filmmaker, writer and self described unicorn Amrou Al-Kadhi. Each …
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us …
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas …
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice …
It seems to me that the objects don’t know their material, the gestures don’t know their feelings, and the words don’t know the mouth that speaks them. But to be …
Valhalla Rising is a complex and violent film, full of beautiful, savage images and scant dialogue. What actually happens onscreen? Nicolas Winding Refn‘s brutal tour-de-force Valhalla Rising stars Mads Mikkelsen …
Soon it will be evening and the clear night sky will be dusted thickly with Summer stars. I shall be here, as always, smoking by the water. I have decided …
Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance or impressing the other, or if …