Reads tagged with “SoundCloud”
The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself
“What is happiness but growth in peace.”
O Sweet Spontaneous: E.E. Cummings’s Love-Poem to Earth and the Glory of Spring
The ultimate anthem of resistance to the assaults on life.
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times
“What is it like, such intensity of pain?”
In a Library: Emily Dickinson on Why We Read and the Magic of Old Books
A love-poem to those folds in spacetime that take us back to “when Sappho was a living girl.”
The Beginning and the End: Robinson Jeffers’s Epic Poem About the Interwoven Mystery of Mind and Universe
“Pleasure and pain, wonder, love, adoration, hatred and terror: how do these thing grow from a chemical reaction?”
Dead Stars: Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s Stunning Love Poem to Life
“We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?”
Meditation in Sunlight: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About the Relationship Between Presence, Solitude, and Love
“…and joy instead of will.”
To a Wreath of Snow: Patti Smith Reads Emily Brontë
In praise of the “voiceless, soulless messenger” that comforts and sustains.
The Human Kaleidoscope and the Unwritten Story of the World: “Radiolab” Creator Jad Abumrad’s Superb Caltech Commencement Address
A ten-year-old boy on the side of a Lebanese mountain road, three generations of monarch butterflies, and the history of the future.
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