Knowledge is empowering

Sunrise, Louise Glück

Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

ms angelou i will never get over this

Wisława Szymborska, “Children of Our Age”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh)  

Heart with its hundred mouths open. Heart with its hundred eyes closed.

Dorianne Laux, Heart

Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "From The Sea,"

Ilya Kaminsky, ‘Dancing in Odessa’, Dancing in Odessa

[Text ID: “It was April. The sun washed the balconies, April.”]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from a letter to Ebrahim Golestan featured in “Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad,” tr. by Sholeh Wolpé.

“What makes a poem a poem, finally, is that it is unparaphrasable. There is no other way to say exactly this; it exists only in its own body of language, only in these words. I may try to explain it or represent it in other terms, but then some element of its life will always be missing. It’s the same with painting. All I can say of still life must finally fall short; I may inventory, weigh, suggest, but I cannot circumscribe; some element of mystery will always be left out. What is missing is, precisely, its poetry.”

— Mark Doty, from Still Life With Oysters and Lemon

hollering the entire time i was reading this

Interior Daylight  - Antonio Barahona , 2020.

Spanish, b. 1984 -

Oil on wood

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE directed by Sophie Hyde

Yellow field - Alice Brasser , 2024.

Dutch, b. 1965 -

Gouache on paper , 30 x 24 cm.

tuesday by Alex Dimitrov

Vegetable Patch - Fiona Willis

British , b. 1953 -

Watercolour and ink , 24.5 x 32.4 cm.