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Mar 24
Wake Upon the Sea
Antonio Machado,
Campos de Castilla, 'Proverbios y Cantares XXIX' (trans. from the Spanish)
Traveler, your footprints are
Mar 9
The Forest Without Paths
Rollo May,
The Courage to Create
We are called upon to do something new, to confront a no man's land, to push into a forest where the...
Feb 20
Before Shaping
M.C. Richards,
Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
Centering: that act which precedes all others on the potter's wheel. The bringing of the clay into a...
Feb 5
Something Helpless
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters to a Young Poet
We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terr...
Jan 26
Crooked Roads
William Blake,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Jan 21
The Only Question
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters to a Young Poet
You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send th...