The attraction of abstract art lies for me in the fact that it takes the essential traits of tangible objects and transforms them with...

Today is the birthday of the scientific who contributed the discovery of the unconscious, the Oedipus Complex, re-emphasized the...

"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for." "Uttering a word is like striking a note on...

This is what happens when we listen to music: our brains light up. Neuroscientists have discovered that the brain's higher cognitive...

ACT I SCENE I DUKE ORSINO's palace. Twelfth Night [ Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending ] DUKE ORSINO If music...

Here and Now - Peter Balakian The day comes in strips of yellow glass over trees. When I tell you the day is a poem I’m only talking to...

‘Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.’ William Shakespeare As You Like It

In "Ars Poetica", Neruda speaks from the viewpoint of a poet with a bewildered persona. The poet is constantly between two worlds : the...

THE STRANGER In memoriam John K. Coleridge, Esq. The lithe blue pellicle-flame fluttering in my stove, the sole unquiet thing in my...

AWARENESS A Pastoral Harvesting corn with my hands, I feel their kernels, ripe with starch while their stalks cry under my hands and the...