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• Things Turned End-Over-End

  
  Running After My Hat — Authority: 121
  [From this page, which includes a YouTube tour of the interior: "The Upside Down House is a project created by a Polish businessman and philanthropist named Daniel Czapiewski... The house is also meant to be a profound statement about the Communist era and the state of the world."]From whiskey river:Remember That ...
  3 days ago

• Reviewed Elsewhere [Vol. 2, #50]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  Powells Books Reviews THE POETRY OF RILKE Translated and Edited by Edward Snow Read this review: http://bit.ly/6E2Fdk THE POETRY OF RILKE . Translated and Edited by Edward Snow. Hardback: North Point Press, 2009. Buy Now: [ Amazon ] Charles Siegel Contrasts Al Gore’s AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH with ...
  5 days ago

• For those dogged moments when we just have to get things done

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 133
  As Once the Winged Energy of Delight As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood’s dark abysses, now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges. Wonders happen if we can succeed in passing through the harshest danger; but only in a bright and purely granted achievement can ...
  1 week ago

• That foreign yet visceral language we call music. [Peter Lieberson, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; videos]

  
  elephant journal — Authority: 491
  Now, I don’t know anything about classical music, or opera, despite my father’s lifelong passion and efforts. But I appreciate what little I’ve been exposed to. When I lived in Boston, I’d attend a few performances at the Boston Symphony Hall, you could get cheap tickets through some program and it was an ...
  1 week ago

• A poet tells us how to be goal-oriented AND mindful at the same time

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 133
  Can we be goal-oriented and mindful at the same time? Goals and mindfulness are two of the most powerful concepts in contemporary psychology. No doubt, when we are pursuing a goal, we pay attention to what we are doing.  But at a cost. We also neglect what is going on around us. When we pursue a goal, we are ...
  1 week ago

• B/day Post 1--for Rilke

  
  Aikawarazu Life in Japan — Authority: 120
  i Happy Birthday Rainer Maria Rilke, fellow Sag (born December 4, 1875), I carry your book with me today and read: The Poet Speaks of Praising Oh speak, poet, what do you do? --I praise. But the monstrosities and the murderous days, how do you endure them, how do you take them? --I praise. But the ...
  1 week ago

• Faith to See The Other World in This World

  
  Better Living: Thoughts from Mark Daniels — Authority: 131
  [This was shared tonight during midweek Advent worship with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio.] Matthew 1:18-24 The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “There is another world, the same as this one.” A Christian ethics professor, Stanley Hauerwas, quotes Rilke and says , “We ...
  1 week ago

• “drawing out from two strings but one voice”

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 133
  Love Song How shall I hold on to my soul, so that it does not touch yours? How shall I lift it gently up over you on to other things? I would so very much like to tuck it away among long lost objects in the dark in some quiet unknown place, somewhere which remains motionless when your depths resound. And yet ...
  1 week ago

• when many questions in life are not answered I think of…

  
  Colazione a Roma — Authority: 138
  Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions. Rainer Maria Rilke
  2 weeks ago

• Why Write Poetry?

  
  Writinghood — Authority: 124
  Today, I woke up with a horrible sore throat and a post-nasal drip. It would have been quite enough for me to pull up the covers and call in sick. But I knew that there were chores to be done, and what’s more, projects to write. This got me thinking about the reasons of why we decide to do what we do. Working from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Twombly and Rilke

  
  A Poem A Day — Authority: 120
  Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7 pm In a literary program accompanying the rare showing of Cy Twombly’s Treatise on the Veil ( Second Version ), Menil Director Josef Helfenstein will speak briefly about the ...
  3 weeks ago

• ode to a distant beloved

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Pain continues to shape my view of things. We have a tentative diagnosis (but no treatment plan) and tiny pills which make me feel dizzy and move pain from 9/10  to 7/10 (unless I put weight on the right foot or turn the leg the ‘wrong’ way). Gradually * I step back, able to see things from a distance ...
  3 weeks ago

• old man in act iv

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Pain continues to shape my view of things. Have a tentative diagnosis but no treatment plan. Opiate pills make me dizzy and unable to operate heavy machinery. On a subjective scale, pain ranges from 8 to 9 (out of 10). Brandishing a fake-metal walking stick ($29,99), I audition for the part of Old Man in Act IV. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Loudly Quiet

  
  Soul Meets World — Authority: 119
  Often we go through life with unresolved questions. We lament about the past, we wonder if were doing the right thing, if we’re with the right person, if people love us, if we love them enough or if were wasting our time? Questions, questions, questions. The best meeting place for these questions and any ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Mixed Classic & Amateur Wrestling Poetry All World Meet—48 Poems

  
  Clattery MacHinery on Poetry — Authority: 391
  _____         _____     The poems in this collection are on wrestling—the collegiate and amateur styles—but also how we wrestle with life, where we find wrestling in our lives, plus our gods, prophets and heroes past, those who have wrestled the classic bouts. It is modern and boundary-busting, ...
  4 weeks ago

• cleanse

  
  thomas knoll — Authority: 103
  The sea cleanses me with its noise and lays a rhythm upon everything in me that is disturbed and confused. [ via Rainer Maria Rilke ]
  4 weeks ago

• Rainer Maria Rilke

  
  The Greatest Literary Works — Authority: 118
  Sixteen of twenty numbered sections from a piece composed by Rilke in 1898, when he was twenty-two, and never published in his lifetime. I. You must have seen them: these small towns and tiny villages of my homeland. They have learned one day by heart and they scream it out into the sunlight over and over again ...
  4 weeks ago

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