when I rattle on like this
saying useless things are true
such as the Egyptians used marks
shaped like cats to divide words
please slap me with a hyphen…
— Matthew Zapruder from poem Thoughts on Punctuation
- There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray ForThis, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It… Read more: There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray For
- I Know You Are There By How Often I Feel Your AbsenceI know You are there by how often I feel Your absence, not at all like abandonment, not wholly like loneliness, which has its share… — Derrick Austin from poem Audience
- To Love Is Not About MergingTo love is not about merging. It is a noble calling for the individual to ripen, to differentiate, to become a world in oneself in response to another. It is a great, immodest call that singles out a person and summons them beyond all boundaries. Only in this sense may we use the love that… Read more: To Love Is Not About Merging
- Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human BeingsOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke… Read more: Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human Beings
- To Be Loved Means To Be ConsumedTo be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure. – -Rilke and Benvenuta: an Intimate Correspondence In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in… Read more: To Be Loved Means To Be Consumed