Reads tagged with “books”
Bear and Wolf: A Tender Illustrated Fable of Walking Side by Side in Otherness
A watercolor serenade to kinship across difference in a shared world.
The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence
“The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country.”
Against Busyness and Surfaces: Emerson on Living with Presence and Authenticity
On cultivating “the power to swell the moment from the resources of our own heart until it supersedes sun & moon & solar system in its expanding immensity.”
An Evolutionary Anatomy of Affect: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on How and Why We Feel What We Feel
“How and what we create culturally and how we react to cultural phenomena depend on the tricks of our imperfect memories as manipulated by feelings.”
An Openness to Life: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dag Hammarskjöld on Love, Failure, and What It Means to Be Yourself
“When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful.”
Neither Victims Nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence
“If he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward.”
A Burst of Light: Audre Lorde on Turning Fear Into Fire
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes — everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”
Sylvia Beach and the World’s First International Writers’ Protest
When 167 literary titans banded together in solidarity with “that security of works of the intellect and the imagination without which art cannot live.”
A Placid Ecstasy: Walt Whitman’s Most Direct Reflection on Happiness
“What is happiness, anyhow? … so impalpable — a mere breath, an evanescent tinge…”
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