The Two Cultures is the title of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that the breakdown of communication between the Two Cultures of modern society — The Sciences and the Humanities — was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. As a trained scientist [...]
Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life’s improbability as well as its transient beauty. Dreams Despite the geologists’ knowledge and craft, mocking magnets, graphs, and maps— in a [...]
..Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring… ?… The Sound of the Sun It makes one all right, though you hadn’t thought of it, A sound like the sound of the sky on fire, like Armageddon, Whistling and crackling, the explosions of sunlight booming As the huge mass of [...]
Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 01 Jul 2010
Poetry can’t be done as an act of will. You can’t say, I will now write a poem.- Poetry always begins and ends with listening, – W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin acknowledges that his relatively reclusive life on a former pineapple plantation built atop a dormant volcano in Maui, Hawaii, will be disturbed by [...]
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” — Louise Glück Louise Glück is considered to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets. The poet Robert Hass has called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing,” and her poetry is noted for its technical precision, [...]
Light-years It’s a beautiful world, you said, with these trees, marshes, deserts, grasses, rivers and seas and so on. And the moon is really something in its circuits of relative radiance. Include the wingèd M, voluptuous Venus, hotheaded Mars, that lucky devil J and cranky Saturn, of course, plus U and N and the wanderer [...]