Reads tagged with “culture”
Shelley on Poetry and the Art of Seeing
“Poetry… reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being.”
Amanda Palmer Reads “When I Am Among the Trees” by Mary Oliver
“You too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”
Extraordinary Letters on Love, Life, Death, Courage, and Moral Purpose Without Religion from a Victorian Woman Who Lived and Died with Uncommon Bravery
“Love, like strength and courage, is a strange thing; the more we give the more we find we have to give.”
A Pioneering Case for the Value of Citizen Science from the Polymathic Astronomer John Herschel
“There is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge.”
On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow…”
Year of the Monkey: Patti Smith on Dreams, Loss, Love, and Mending the Broken Realities of Life
“One cannot ask for a life, or two lives. One can only warrant the hope of an increasing potency in each man’s heart.”
The Great Czech Playwright Turned Dissident Turned President Václav Havel on Hope
“Hope… is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”
Chaos, Time, and the Origin of Everything: Stephen Fry on How Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Science Meet to Illuminate the Cradle of Being
Inside the “grand cosmic yawn” that gave us everything we’ve ever known (including the word “cosmos” itself).
The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon: John Adams Whipple and How the Birth of Astrophotography Married Immortality and Impermanence
A dual serenade to being and non-being, composed in glass, metal, and stardust.
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