From the journals of Thomas Merton
“The best place to hide, this afternoon, was in the church.
It rained hard and you could hear the rain beating all over the long roof.”
Nation of Language - "Whatever You Want"
Andrea Tarrodi - "Liguria" (2012)
Hokusai - Two Images from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
Hokusai - Snowy morning at Koishikawa (1830s)
Hokusai - The Great Wave Off Kanagawa (1830s)
Lana Del Rey - "Norman Fucking Rockwell"
Detaii from "Maharaja Gaj Singh with Court Ladies Playing Holi" (c. 1750)
Photo by Todd Fisher
Marie Laurencin - "Nymph and Hind" (1925)
Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate, K.165 (sung by Cecilia Bartoli)
Gustav Mahler - Ruckert Lieder - "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (from a poem by Ruckert, sung by Josef van Dam
From "Stoner", by John Williams
“…In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another…”
"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" - Michael William Balfe, from his opera, "The Bohemian Girl", sung by Elina Garanca
Photo by Todd Fisher
Bruce Smith
“…The try to come to [and maybe failing] is what the poem does, and what language does as it fails in attempts to be more than itself or care for another thing.”
- Bruce Smith, from an email. Ars poetica in its own right. Read this one of his poems, from “Devotions.”