I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.
Dare to love yourself
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.
Remember, it's your own body, your own brain. You're not a victim of the universe, you are the universe.
I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.