Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter – John Keats ; Ode on a Grecian Urn Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. …
For I have learnedTo look on nature, not as in the hourOf thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimesThe still sad music of humanity,Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample powerTo chasten and subdue.—And I have feltA presence that disturbs me with the joyOf elevated thoughts – William Wordsworth from Tintern Abbey …
For there will always be ratio between finite things, but between the finite and the infinite there can never be any comparison. Wherefore, however long drawn out may be the life of your fame, it is not even small, but it is absolutely nothing when compared with eternity. – Boethius, …
Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Hamlet – Act V, Scene ii, 219-220 In 1921 T.S. Eliot published a little article discussing what he viewed as the inconsistencies with the play Hamlet by Shakespeare. The piece is short and entitled Hamlet and His …
The greatest thing by far, is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblance. – Aristotle, from Poetics When I was in college a poet came to visit …
It was a sunny afternoon in Pittsburgh. I was sitting in my parked car just outside the music building. I was laid back in the driver’s seat, my foot hanging out the window, and looking up at the Cathedral of Learning across the street. I remember the diffused orange glint …
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. – Henry David Thoreau Everything is story. Everything. After I had graduated college, I lived on for a summer in Pittsburgh. At the time I was renting a …
Below is an article I wrote and published on the Huffington Post 3 years ago (can you believe it!!!) on 05/27/2015. I am re-posting it here for your viewing pleasure. The original site link, my blog over at Huffington Post, is located here – Birth of a Lion and the …
