Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) I have been writing poetry with my friend Sangeetha (of Mindfills) for nearly two years now, and we've completed three series of poems together: Ripples ~ a hyakuin (a 100 verse renga) Form verses creativity ~ one poetic form for every letter… Continue reading Word of the year: Creativity
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. -Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. -Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881) Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. -Plato (~423 – ~347… Continue reading We walk in circles, so limited…
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.-John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.-Helen Keller (1880 – 1968) A man must dream a long time in order to act with… Continue reading So the darkness shall be the light…
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.-Steven Wright (b. 1955) You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.-Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) We all write poems; it is simply that poets… Continue reading Language at its most distilled and most powerful…
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