Reads tagged with “culture”
The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention
“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer.”
Farmhouse: Sophie Blackall’s Poetic Illustrated Tribute to Time and Tenderness
“Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns, stands a house…”
Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Almost Unbearably Sweet Account of Sole-Parenting His Small Son
“Mercy on me, was ever man before so be-pelted with a child’s talk as I am! It is his desire of sympathy that lies at the bottom of the great heap of his babblement.”
David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists
“It’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations”
Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
The Poetry of Science and Wonder as an Antidote to Self-Destruction: Rachel Carson’s Magnificent 1952 National Book Award Acceptance Speech
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that… is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction… There can be no separate literature of science.”
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self: How a Circle of Friends and Lovers United Nature and Human Nature
“Mind is invisible nature, while nature is visible mind.”
The Choreography of Everyday Life: A Leaping Antidote to Our Modern Loneliness
Finding that vitalizing “a reciprocity between us perceiving the world together through art, and the world in turn reading us through what we make.”
The Art of Receiving: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning of Gratitude
“It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding. Receiving, on the other hand, if it be well done, requires a fine balance of self-knowledge and kindness.”
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