Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
by Kenneth Koch
You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
To work hard every day. What’s true
Is of these three you may have two
And two can pay you dividends
But never may have three.
There isn’t time enough, my friends–
Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends–
To find the time to have love... See more
Madeleine Dore • You want a social life, with friends
Edward Hopper),
George Packer • The Unwinding
Being twice as excellent as white folk will get you half of what they get. Being anything less will get you hell.”
Kiese Laymon • Heavy: An American Memoir
His most celebrated poem is: Furu ike ya! Kawazu tobikomu Mizu no oto The old pond A frog jumps in The sound of water As with most haiku, the images are taken from the small details found in nature and then the imagery is used to paint a thousand pictures and convey sentiments that elude verbal definition.
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
The American Negro cannot explain to the African what surely seems in himself to be a want of manliness, of racial pride, a maudlin ability to forgive. It is difficult to make clear that he is not seeking to forfeit his birthright as a black man, but that, on the contrary, it is precisely this birthright which he is struggling to recognize and make
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