Monday 31 December 2012
Saturday 29 December 2012
Friday 28 December 2012
Thursday 27 December 2012
Wednesday 26 December 2012
We are all born as animals
and live the life that animals live:
we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight.
There is, however, another order of living,
which the animals do not know,
that of awe before the mystery of being,
the 'mysterium tremendum et fascinans,'
that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days.
That is the birth – the Virgin Birth –
in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.
Tuesday 25 December 2012
Monday 24 December 2012
Sunday 23 December 2012
Saturday 22 December 2012
Friday 21 December 2012
Thursday 20 December 2012
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Monday 17 December 2012
Saturday 15 December 2012
Thursday 13 December 2012
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it.
The intellect is not the fount of poetry,
may hinder its production,
and cannot even be trusted to recognise poetry when it is produced.
Art is not, like science, a logic of references
but a release from references and rendition of immediate experience:
a presentation of forms, images, or ideas
in such a way that they will communicate,
not primarily a thought or even a feeling,
in such a way that they will communicate,
not primarily a thought or even a feeling,
but an impact.
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Sunday 9 December 2012
Friday 7 December 2012
Thursday 6 December 2012
Wednesday 5 December 2012
Monday 3 December 2012
Sunday 2 December 2012
There is an old standard saying about the arts:
'You need to learn all the rules, and then forget them' ...
In writing a book,
you are moving along on the wave of your inspiration and intuition,
and then you come to a difficult passage,
an area you have to cover in order to get from here to there,
and your momentum stops.
That’s when you have to bring in the rules.
Saturday 1 December 2012
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