Reads tagged with “poetry”
Finding Poetry in Other Lives: James Baldwin on Shakespeare, Language as a Tool of Love, and the Poet’s Responsibility to a Divided Society
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love — by knowing… that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him.”
Keats on the Three Layers of Reality and What Gives Meaning to Human Existence
“Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.”
A Small Dark Light: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us About Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years Later
“It is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.”
Orson Welles Reads Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
“All goes onward and outward … and nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on Race in a Rare Recording
Reflection on “the rock on which Freedom stumped its toe.”
Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem “Kindness”
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
Joseph Brodsky on the Greatest Antidote to Evil
“What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.”
When the Sky Is No More Than Remembered Light: Mark Strand Reads His Poignant Poem “The End”
“Not every man knows what is waiting for him, or what he shall sing / when the ship he is on slips into darkness, there at the end.”
The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
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