Reads tagged with “poetry”
Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling Critique the Media
“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.”
Proust’s Previously Unknown Illustrated Poems
“As you read the poems, the lapidary wall of Great Writer dissolves and the person expands horizontally.”
To This Day: A Collaborative Animated Spoken-Word Poem About the Lifelong Pain of Bullying
Soul-stirring words in 20-second fragments of creativity.
Edward Gorey Illustrates T. S. Eliot’s Iconic Cat Poems
Two grand masters of delight, together.
On Loves, Lunacies, and Losses: The Little-Known Poetry of Mark Twain
“Advance your cue and shut your eyes / And take the cushion first.”
Why Adrienne Rich Became the Only Person to Decline the National Medal of Arts
“I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.”
William Wordsworth on Pleasure as the Shared Heart of Poetry and Science
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”
Legendary Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Future of Music, Harvard 1973
“A great new era of eclecticism is at hand.”
Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Book”
“When I close a book I open life… I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss…”
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