“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
– Walt Whitman
Art by Henry Julien Felix Rousseau.
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14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time
Fourteen writers on the one book that brings them hope in the midst of hopelessness at Lithub.com
Erling Kagge about The Story of Albert Schweitzer:
“Schweitzer’s idea in Reverence for Life: that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil slowly opened a new horizon. I started to see that everybody can change the world. One small step at a time. Even a mouse can eat an elephant if it takes small enough bites. The challenge lies in the desire.”
– Erling Kagge
Norwegian explorer, appears at Hay Festival Querétaro to talk about his latest work, Walking; One Step At a Time.
View the full article at Lithub.com.
Ousted at Spillwords
Ousted
written by: Sultana Raza
@sultana.raza.7
No perch to hang onto, no nest to stay,
Aurum eluded him, or brother took,
New graves; most of his family lay,
Later in sickness, friends forsook.
View the full poem at Spillwords.
Sultana Raza
Sultana Raza has a Master of Arts in English Literature. Her poems have appeared in 40+ Journals, including Caduceus (Ed. Yale University), Columbia Journal, and The New Verse News. More poems have appeared in Gramma, Enclave, Entropy, Poetry24, The Society of Classical Poetry, Bewildering Stories, Spillwords, and The Peacock Journal.
Her fiction has been published online (Coldnoon Journal), and received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train Review (USA). Her 100+ articles (on art, film, and humanitarian issues) have appeared in English and French. She has presented her fiction and poetry in Creative Writing Panels in international conferences in the US and Europe, where she’s also presented papers on Romanticism (Keats) and Fantasy (Tolkien).
Beauty and the Beast
“I was most inspired by pity for the beast’s awful loneliness and self-disgust. His tragedy is to know all about beauty and how to create it in everything around him, but to miss it in himself.”
– Angela Barrett, on illustrating “Beauty and the Beast”
Art by Angela Barrett.
May I kiss you then?
“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
– Franz Kafka
Art by Marc Chagall.
Protest
‘In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”
– Phil Ochs
Art – Martin Johnson Heade – Blue Morpho Butterfly
Frozen heart
“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love ― just enough to feed the birds.”
― Henry Miller
Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Real
“Real isn’t how you are made. It’s a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don’t mind being hurt. It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. Once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.”
– Margery Williams
Art – Clair de Lune et Lumières, Léon Spilliaert, 1909
Love
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
– Adyashanti
Art by Vladimir Kush.
Hope
I’ve always felt that one of the most devastating states of mind is the absence of hope. And that is a condition that envelops a goodly number of people everywhere. And when you make drama of that condition, it’s almost as if words are not necessary.
– SIDNEY POITIER, 1992
Art by Christian Schloe.
