Yehuda Amichai
Aristotle
- Poetics – On Michael Davis and Political Considerations
- Poetics – The Problem of Knowledge and Action
- Is Politics Reducible to Rhetoric?
- Politics Bk. 2 Ch. 9 Paragraph 1
- Ethics Bk. 1 Ch. 6
- Ethics Bk. 2 Ch. 4
- Ethics Bk. 2 Ch. 7
W.H. Auden
- Musee de Beaux Arts
- Ganymede
- Are You There?
- The More Loving One
- Epitaph on a Tyrant
- “Jumbled in the common box…”
Charles Baudelaire
Marvin Bell
William Blake
- The Human Abstract
- The Little Boy Lost / The Little Boy Found
- The Tyger
- A Divine Image / The Divine Image
- All Religions are One
Robert Bly
Emily Dickinson
- “Banish Air from Air”
- “Apology for Her”
- “Be Mine the Doom”
- “Spring is the Period”
- “I made slow Riches but my Gain”
- “Good to hide, and hear ’em hunt!”
- “How well I knew Her not”
- “Away from Home are some and I”
- “Expectation – is Contentment”
- “They say that Time assuages”
- “A South Wind – has a pathos”
- “Fame of Myself, to justify”
- “I stepped from Plank to Plank”
- “Me, change! Me, alter!”
- “We like a Hairbreadth ‘scape…”
- “So the Eyes accost – and sunder…”
- “A Moth the hue of this…”
- “I fear a Man of frugal Speech…”
- “I dwell in Possibility…”
- “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
- “Hope is the thing with feathers…”
- “Such is the Force of Happiness…”
- “I sometimes drop it, for a Quick…”
- “I could suffice for Him, I knew…”
- “The Soul selects her own Society…”
- “I had not minded – Walls…”
- “Love – is anterior to Life…”
- “To hang out head – ostensibly…”
- “Publication is the Auction…”
- “My Triumph lasted till the Drums…”
- “The Sunset stopped on Cottages…”
- “Had I not This, or This, I said…”
- “I should not dare to leave my friend…”
- “I’ve nothing else – to bring, You know…”
- “My Reward for Being…”
- “The Earth has many keys…”
- “The heart asks pleasure first…”
- “What I can do – I will”
- “When night is almost done…”
- “To fight aloud is very brave…”
- “Read, sweet, how others strove…”
- “Success is counted sweetest…”
- “So has a Daisy vanished…”
- “Our share of night to bear…”
- “There’s a certain slant of light…”
- “The power to be true to You…”
- “I’ve seen a Dying Eye…”
- “These are the days when Birds come back…”
- “If I can stop one heart from breaking…”
Ario Farin
The Federalist (Hamilton, Madison, Jay)
- Federalist No. 1: Moderation & Justice, “Reflection and Choice”
- Federalist No. 9: On the Improvements in Political Science
- Federalist No. 10 (1st paragraph): On Faction
- Federalist No. 84 (selected portions): On Rights
Robert Frost
- Mowing
- Meeting and Passing
- Bond and Free
- The Pasture
- Hyla Brook
- The Oven Bird
- For Once, Then, Something
- The Gift Outright
Martin Heidegger
Hopkins
Thomas Jefferson
- First Inaugural Address
- Letter to John Norvell, 6.14.1807
- Letter to James Madison, 9.6.1789
- Letter to William Ludlow, 9.6.1824
- On Jefferson’s Epitaph
Immanuel Kant
- On Susan Shell’s “Kant’s Theory of Property”
- The Problem of Power in “Perpetual Peace”
- The Problem of Reason in “Perpetual Peace”
Katia Kapovich
John Keats
Jane Kenyon
Amy King
- State of a Nation
- Ivywall of Sparrows
- Calling all agents
- I’ve Opted for a Heart This Mid-November Morn
- A Solution to Science, In Part
- Everyone Has a Decision To Make
- Two if by Land, I Do
Stanley Kunitz
Dorianne Laux
Abraham Lincoln
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on “The Case of Wagner”
- Nietzsche on Education and Possibility
- On The Nature Of Teaching: Regarding Three Aphorisms from Beyond Good and Evil
Plato
Plutarch
Ezra Pound
Kay Ryan
William Shakespeare
- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
- “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame…”
- “That time of year thou mayst in me behold…”
- “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…”
- On Macbeth
Alice Shapiro
Gary Soto
William Stafford
Wallace Stevens
Nomi Stone
Alexis de Tocqueville
Virgil
Derek Walcott
Tom Wayman
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cecilia Woloch
Charles Wright
William Butler Yeats
- Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
- The Second Coming
- Easter 1916
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Leda and the Swan
- When Helen Lived
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Choice
*end authors*
Music:
- Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
- Weakerthans – Aside
- Weakerthans – Sun in an Empty Room
- Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure
- Weakerthans – Night Windows
- Weakerthans – None of the Above
- Weakerthans – Utilities
- Death Cab for Cutie – “Lightness”
- Death Cab for Cutie – “Transatlanticism”
- The Good Life – “You Don’t Feel Like Home To Me”
- Bob Dylan/Elliott Smith: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
- The Roots – “False Media”
- Why? – Sanddollars
- On “La Boheme”
- On Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”
Movies:
- Up
- 9
- Star Trek (2009)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Watchmen
- The Prestige
- The Departed
- Children of Men
- Babel
- Rescue Dawn
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
*end arts*
Selected Poems:
- I am away from my computer
- A Daughter to her Parents on Their Anniversary
- Enfolding
- Bachelor
- Wolcott’s Heraldry
- Good Friday
- Place
- Still Life
- Investment
- An Impassioned Beauty Speaks
- Learning
Selected Fiction and Travel Narrative:
- Meals
- Puppy Love
- Dreaming in America
- Collegium in Costa Rica
Can I know the English meaning of the quote beneath the blogname?
Apologies for the late response! It’s from Ungaretti’s “La Notte Bella.” The quote is “I’m now drunk with the universe.” A fuller context:
“Now like a child at breast
I gnaw
This void
Now I’m drunk
With the universe”