slowness

3 entries · All themes

• Mar 1 The Woodcarver's Emptying Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi, Chapter 19: 'Mastering Life' (trans. Herbert A. Giles, 1889) Ch'ing, the chief carpenter, was carving wood into a stand for hanging musical instruments. When fin...
• Feb 12 The Fading Coal Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A ma...
• Jan 28 The Irreducible Ingredient Emily Dickinson, Poems To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,