Here's a special World Book Day edition of Poem for the Weekend, courtesy of Czeslaw Milosz. This Nobel Prize winner wrote virtually all of his poems in his native Polish. You can find his eventful biography here.
And Yet...
Remember in high school, that one character in your group who
said the funniest things? He was intelligent in amusing and surprising ways
and always had a range of interests outside everyone else’s. Maybe he had
a passion...
The poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg was born in Washington state and studied at Mount Holyoke College, where she won the first of many poetry awards. Best known for her masterful use of prosody and blank verse, Schnackenberg's...
Jose Rizal is a national hero in the Philippines, where he advocated peaceful resistance to Spanish rule and was executed for conspiracy in 1896. A medical doctor by training, he excelled in many arts and pursuits,...
"The relationship between these two is that of the part to the whole, and in all things we have no way of ever really knowing the Whole, but we can know a part of it, and that part has to suffice. I am definitely now...
I’m all about turtles lately. I guess I always have been, in
some room of my mind. When I was a kid, a neighbor who babysat us had a
turtle living in her back yard. Along the side of the house, where there were
dense...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
