Bakchylides – Invitation

 Poems  No Responses »
Nov 212010
 

I cannot promise at my hearth
great slabs of beef, and gold,
and deep red carpet,
but only the loving-kindness
of your host, and music,
and clay crocks of local wine.

translated by Brooks Haxton

 Posted by  Tagged with: ,

Seven Things x 3 That I Can Never Remember

 Orts  No Responses »
Nov 212010
 

Seven Deadly Sins
Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth.

Seven Sacraments
Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, Matrimony

Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost
Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, Fear of the Lord

 Posted by  Tagged with: , ,

Adam Gopnick: “a sense of history”

 Quotes  No Responses »
Nov 212010
 

It is not for history to supply us with a sense of history. Life always supplies us with a sense of history. It is for history to supply us with a sense of life.

“Headless Horsemen.” New Yorker 2006.06.05

 Posted by  Tagged with: ,

Edward Murrow on television

 Quotes  No Responses »
Nov 212010
 

This instrument can teach, it can illuminate, yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it’s nothing but wires and lights in a box.

 Posted by  Tagged with:

John Burnside – Prayer

 Poems  No Responses »
Nov 212010
 

Give me a little less
with every dawn:
colour, a breath of wind,
the perfection of shadows,

till what I find, I find
because it’s there,
gold in the seams of my hands
and the desk lamp, burning.

 Posted by  Tagged with:
Page 10 of 62« First...89101112...203040...Last »
© 2012 < t e r r i b l y   c u n e i f o r m > Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha