Reads tagged with “poetry”
Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism
“By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system.”
Robert Browning on Artistic Integrity, Withstanding Criticism, and the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater
A countercultural serenade to the wellspring of the creative spirit against the tidal forces of commerce and criticism.
Adrienne Rich’s Haunting Poem About Love and the Cosmic Perspective
“…equations letting sight pierce through time into liberations, lacerations of light and dust…”
Zadie Smith Reads Frank O’Hara’s Love Poem to Time via an Old-Fashioned Telephone Line
A bittersweet serenade to the bidirectional pull of existence.
Advice on Writing from Emily Dickinson’s Editor
“Oftentimes a word shall speak what accumulated volumes have labored in vain to utter: there may be years of crowded passion in a word, and half a life in a sentence.”
Reading for Life: Polish Poet Aleksander Wat on How Books Helped Him Survive in a Soviet Prison
“I had a great desire to live because I found Nietzsche’s amor fati in every trifle in every book, even the pessimistic ones. The more pessimistic the book, the more pulsating energy, life energy, I felt beneath its surface — as if all of literature were only the praise of life’s beauty, of all of life…”
The Universe in Verse: Regina Spektor Reads “Theories of Everything” by Astronomer, Poet, and Tragic Genius Rebecca Elson
Lyrical reflections at the crossroads of truth and meaning.
Spring with Emily Dickinson
“Today is very beautiful — just as bright, just as blue, just as green and as white, and as crimson, as the cherry trees full in bloom, and the half opening peach blossoms, and the grass just waving, and sky and hill and cloud, can make it, if they try…”
The Universe in Verse 2018: Full Show
An evening of poems celebrating science, read by beloved artists, writers, scientists, and musicians.
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