Reads tagged with “culture”
Literary Ecstasy: Virginia Woolf Describes a Psychedelic Experience
“All our most violent passions, and art and religion, are the reflections which we see in the dark hollow at the back of the head when the visible world is obscured for the time.”
Van Gogh on the Beauty of Sorrow and the Enchantment of Storms, in Nature and in Life
“Oh, there must be a little bit of air, a little bit of happiness, but chiefly to let the form be felt, to make the lines of the silhouette speak. But let the whole be sombre.”
Stephen Hawking on What Makes a Good Theory and the Quest for a Theory of Everything
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.”
Walt Whitman on the “Meaning” of Art and How to Best Access the Poetic
“At its best, poetic lore is like what may be heard of conversation in the dusk, from speakers far or hid, of which we get only a few broken murmurs. What is not gather’d is far more — perhaps the main thing.”
Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love
“Great love is never justified. It’s like the little tree that springs up in some inexplicable fashion on the side of a cliff: where are its roots, what does it feed on, what miracle produces those green leaves?”
Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak
“Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with another always?”
Why the Sea Is Blue: Rachel Carson on the Science and Splendor of the Marine Spectrum
“The deep blue water of the open sea far from land is the color of emptiness and barrenness; the green water of the coastal areas, with all its varying hues, is the color of life.”
The Great Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz on Love
“Who serves best doesn’t always understand.”
King of the Sky: A Lyrical Illustrated Fable of Belonging and the Meaning of Home
A soulful sidewise gleam at the loneliness of the immigrant experience.
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