Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle... Continue reading

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato Continue reading

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Continue reading

BLOOM by Emily Dickinson Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower And casually glance Would cause one scarcely to suspect The minor Circumstance Assisting in the Bright Affair So intricately done Then offered as a Butterfly To the Meridian — To pack the Bud — oppose the Worm... Continue reading

I unearthed this Typepad account today. I had forgotten it even existed but it turned up in a vanity search I did. I'm not sure when I started it and why but it seemed to be mostly things from other places online. Perhaps, I moved to Tumblr to serve that... Continue reading

Poetry is a character study of a film that examines many of the same big topics that poetry on paper has always addressed - like beauty, truth and mortality. It comes from Korean writer-director Lee Chang-dong. His script won the best screenplay prize at Cannes last year. His previous directing... Continue reading

About This Site Names are not always self-explanatory.Take rock bands. Bands often have unusual names. We try to pin down the stories behind a band's name. (You can browse bands as a category or by the first letter or number in a name with the links below or use the... Continue reading

You can hit that ESCape key all you want to. As Dylan said, "You ain't going nowhere." Continue reading

“From things that have happened . . . and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if... Continue reading