“…. the true philosopher and the true poet become what they are when they “go beyond” philosophy and poetry, and cease to “be philosophers” or to “be poets.” It is at that point that their whole lives become philosophy and poetry—in other words, there is no longer any philosophy or any poetry separable from the… Read More Philosophers and Poets
Just before our love got lost you said –“I am as constant as a northern star”-And I said, “Constantly in the darkness, –Where’s that at?If you want me I’ll be in the bar” — Joni Mitchell, Case of You
“Oh, I am a lonely painter –I live in a box of paints –I’m frightened by the devil –And I’m drawn to those that ain’t…”* “Everybody’s saying that hell’s the hippest way to go-Well I don’t think so-But I’m gonna take a look around it though…Blue, I love you” — Joni Mitchell A Case of… Read More Boomers I love (but can’t let many teach me)
Paul Kingsnorth, First Things Magazine. We must have been fifteen or sixteen when we discovered the church visitor’s book. It was an old church, maybe medieval, and I would pass it with my school friends on our way to the town center. I’m not sure what possessed us to go in; it might have been my… Read More The Cross and the Machine
“When war broke out in September 1939, Pound began a letter-writing campaign to the politicians he had petitioned months earlier.[296] On 18 June 1940, after the fall of France, he wrote to Senator Burton K. Wheeler: “I have read a regulation that only those foreigners are to be admitted to the U.S. who are deemed… Read More Robert Frost and Ezra Pound
