Sam Gilliam’s soft-spoken passion for creativity and painting is so infectious. He speaks here about his process, background, and the development of the public art movement that began in the …
She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, …
If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted. —Rumi Public Domain …
I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’ I’ve been writing about a subject I …
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor …
In our time… a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you …
I haven’t much time to be fond of anything … but when I have a moment’s fondness to bestow, most times … the roses get it. I began my life among them …
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same …
In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the …
The way that I’ve always thought about creativity is that ideas are these disembodied life forms, they don’t have a form but they have a will, and all they want …
