Reads tagged with “SoundCloud”
Orson Welles Reads Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
“All goes onward and outward … and nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
Bruce Lee’s Daughter Shares Her Father’s Philosophy of Learning
“Learning is discovering, uncovering what is there in us.”
Chelsea Clinton Reads James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Role in Society
“The war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”
Allen Ginsberg on the Tyranny of the Closet, Coming Out to His Loved Ones, and How Buddhist Meditation Helped Him Stop Seeking Approval
“Wanting approval … is a kind of aggression.”
Alison Bechdel on Writing, Therapy, Self-Doubt, and How the Messiness of Life Feeds the Creative Conscience
“It’s by writing… by stepping back a bit from the real thing to look at it, that we are most present.”
We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on Race in a Rare Recording
Reflection on “the rock on which Freedom stumped its toe.”
Neil Gaiman Reads “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury,” His Lovely Present for Bradbury’s 91st and Final Birthday
A touching ode to friendship as a kind of mutual memory.
Amanda Palmer Reads “Humanity I Love You” by E.E. Cummings
A timeless ode to the human spirit and the courage of “making poems in the lap of death.”
Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautiful and Life-Giving Poem for a Young Friend Contemplating Suicide
“Be there to hear … the flute of your whole existence…”
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