December 2011
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A Vast Confusion
Long long I lay in the sands
Sounds of trains in the surf
in subways of the sea
And an even greater undersound
of a vast confusion in the universe
a rumbling and a roaring
as of some enormous creature turning
under sea and earth
a billion sotto voices murmuring
a swelling stuttering
in ocean’s speakers
world’s voice-box heard with ear to sand
a shocked echoing
a shocking...
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Lawrence Weschler on Work & Grace
And you’re going to work, and you’re going to work, and you’re going to work, and then suddenly it’s going to be right. It will go from being the million-sided polygon into a circle. That pop can only occur in grace, which is to say gratis, which is to say for free…Another way of putting it is it’s preparation for receptivity. If you hadn’t have worked,...
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November 2011
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“And time for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions & revisions,...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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LEWIS HYDE ON CREATIVITY
“The creative spirit moves in a body or ego larger than that of any single person. Works of art are drawn from, and the bestowal nourishes, those parts of our being that are not entirely personal, parts that derive from nature, from the group and the race, from history and tradition, and from the spiritual world.” – The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Poetry (2007)
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