Poets, like journalists, historians, are after the truth. But what kind of truth, exactly, do we find in poetry?
We don’t look to poems for factual truths. Poetry is truest when it attends to something beyond facts: the education of our emotions... Stealing Memories from Cold River
Freedom from all constraints is no freedom at all. True liberty lies in responsibility. We are defined by the commitments we keep... Culture and the Death of God
The Naipaul Question. How does a writer become so protean – sympathetic and vile, attractive and repulsive, wounder and wounded?... Naipaul and Margaret began an affair that set free all of his desires and fantasies
A common yet potent word can seriously undermine you; it also antagonize others No should
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love,” the great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh cautioned in his illuminating treatise on love.
Attacks on synagogues, shootings, hate speech: The merger of deep-rooted anti-Semitism with a powerful strain of radical Islamism poses a new existential threat to European Jewry—and a crisis across the continent. Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?
The Metamorphosis (public library) by Franz Kafka
I never again slept with my former serenity. [The book] determined a new direction for my life from its first line, which today is one of the great devices in world literature: “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” [I realized that] it was not necessary to demonstrate facts: it was enough for the author to have written something for it to be true, with no proof other than the power of his talent and the authority of his voice. It was Scheherazade all over again, not in her millenary world where everything was possible but in another irreparable world where everything had already been lost. When I finished reading The Metamorphosis I felt an irresistible longing to live in that alien paradise.
Jason Webster - The Spy With 29 Names
Well I hadn't heard of Juan Pujol nor any of this 28 other names but Webster, who has been writing fiction and non-fiction about Spain for over a decade, claims that he was a double agent who played a crucial role in the success of D-Day. I'd need to read on to see if I agree with him but I am tempted to do so because he spins a decent yarn so far.
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Well I hadn't heard of Juan Pujol nor any of this 28 other names but Webster, who has been writing fiction and non-fiction about Spain for over a decade, claims that he was a double agent who played a crucial role in the success of D-Day. I'd need to read on to see if I agree with him but I am tempted to do so because he spins a decent yarn so far.
- See more at: http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/#sthash.ypQEamFg.dpuf
Well
I hadn't heard of Juan Pujol nor any of this 28 other names but
Webster, who has been writing fiction and non-fiction about Spain for
over a decade, claims that he was a double agent who played a crucial
role in the success of D-Day. I'd need to read on to see if I agree with
him but I am tempted to do so because he spins a decent yarn so far. -
See more at: http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/#sthash.ypQEamFg.dpuf
Well
I hadn't heard of Juan Pujol nor any of this 28 other names but
Webster, who has been writing fiction and non-fiction about Spain for
over a decade, claims that he was a double agent who played a crucial
role in the success of D-Day. I'd need to read on to see if I agree with
him but I am tempted to do so because he spins a decent yarn so far. -
See more at: http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/#sthash.ypQEamFg.dpuf