Life Starts All Over Again
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. F. Scott Fitzgerald ❏
Category: Word
Higher Than Other Birds
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in […]
Graveyard Of Empires
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains and the women come out to cut up what remainsjest roll to your rifle […]
The Limited Ways In Which People See And Feel
I think the day I finally was forced to realize that no one in the world really knows any more about what’s […]
The Times Demand
The world is a tough place to live in and for the poet it can be unbearable. In all this spin of […]
In The Mind Of The Poet
In the mind of the poet, all times are contemporaneous Ezra Pound ❏
The Crime Of Poetry
Fabre d’Olivet, prodigious philologist of the early 19th century, contradicted the classical-academic etymology of the words “poetry” and “poet” as, respectively, “making” […]
The Sublimest Activity Of The Human Mind
The crown of literature is poetry. It is the end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It […]
A Word Has Power
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into meaning. It gives origin to all things. By means […]
Ars Poetica
Poetry originated in the beginning: in the creation myths and tribal lore, song, dance and religion that are fundamental to life and […]