Quote of the Week

"I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

~Langston Hughes

Quote of the Week

"God was a wild god,
into the most mindless rock,
but graceful,
looking- this excited me-
like no one I could love, "

~ Stephen Dunn, Dancing with God

Quote of the Week

"You can walk out of your life
if sadness properly instructs you"

~Stephen Dunn, A Good Life

Quote of the Week

Sorry I haven't done a quote in a long time. Did I mention that my computer is still busted? Anyways, I was given a lovely book of poetry just yesterday, and while I haven't had a chance to really delve into it yet, I did come across this passage:

"Then he took the wind in his fist
and let it out like a butterfly,
to show what power was.

When no one understood,
he let himself go
and they followed the simple flight into his mind. . ."

~Stephen Dunn, Teacher Answering Young Radicals

Quote of the Week

So I just got this wonderful book Jewel: Hesitations in Art by Tanel Veenre. I am absolutely drooling over this work and the writing is fantastic also:

"Jewellry is crystallized poetry, a precious compact genre with a finely honed vocabulary of patterns. Spare, but taut. Art requires to be one's own storyteller."

How can I get to this crystallized poetry?

Poetry

I feel like I could write poetry with the things I find on my evening walks.

Quote of the Week

"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan on it.
When I'm outside the saying of it
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."

~Rumi
Who Says Words With My Mouth?

Quote of the Week

"The details make life holy. If you want a little happiness in life don't forget to look at the little things. It's a poet's work to see the incidental, pluck it, place an appropriate silence around both sides and see the profound in what passes for a passing moment. It is an artist's job to as much discover art as create it. Prayer is a way of making the common profound by pausing, tying knots around a moment, turning our life into a string of pearls."

~Noah Ben Shea

Quote of the Week

"Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul, and in mixing that I found poetry."

~Rumi

A Salve Made With Dirt

Quote of the Week

I've started reading a book of poetry by Rumi, for my readings class this semester, so over the next few weeks, you might get a poem of the week, instead of a quote.

What's Inside the Ground

Whatever gives pleasure is the fragrance
of the Friend. Whatever makes us wonder

comes from that light. What's inside the
ground begins to sprout because you spilled

wine there. What dies in autumn comes up
in spring because this way of saying no

becomes in spring your praise song yes.