“I think it's the future. At least, it's the future
we called "tomorrow." Here it is,
"today": one hundred cups of effort,
good intentions, small misunderstandings,
stretching away from the bed
and finally leading back to it.”
― The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007
we called "tomorrow." Here it is,
"today": one hundred cups of effort,
good intentions, small misunderstandings,
stretching away from the bed
and finally leading back to it.”
― The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007
“The truth is that we're drowning in busywork, nonproductive work, everything from "creative" banking and insurance bureaucracies to the pointless shuffling of data and the manufacturing of products designed to be obsolescent almost immediately- and I would argue that a great deal of what we're doing should just stop. Interestingly, people of all sorts are beginning to reconnect to skills and sensibilities that were bulldozed in the frenzy of 'development' that remade our world during the past two generations. Those orchards and fields that once covered the peninsula, the East Bay, and Silicon Valley are haunting us now, as we seek to relocalize our food sources and our economy more generally. People are relearning how to reuse things, how to fix broken items, and even how to make new things from the scraps of industrial waste. The world shaped by capitalist modernization is not good for human life and is certainly rough on the health of the planet. The hollowing out of communities whose lives were once anchored in the old Produce Market area or who shared life along the vibrant Fillmore blues corridor is precisely what people are trying to overcome.”
― Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
― Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
“APPLY WITHIN
You once told me
You wanted to find
Yourself in the world -
And I told you to
First apply within,
To discover the world
within you.
You once told me
You wanted to save
The world from all its wars -
And I told you to
First save yourself
From the world,
And all the wars
You put yourself
Through.
APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem”
―
You once told me
You wanted to find
Yourself in the world -
And I told you to
First apply within,
To discover the world
within you.
You once told me
You wanted to save
The world from all its wars -
And I told you to
First save yourself
From the world,
And all the wars
You put yourself
Through.
APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem”
―
“Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.”
―
―
“Speech to a Crowd
Tell me, my patient friends, awaiters of messages.
From what other shore, from what stranger,
Whence, was the word to come? Who was to lesson you?
Listeners under a child’s crib in a manger,
Listeners once by the oracles, now by the transoms,
Whom are you waiting for? Who do you think will explain?
Listeners thousands of years and still no answer—
Writers at night to Miss Lonely-Hearts, awkward spellers,
Open your eyes! There is only earth and the man!
There is only you. There is no one else on the telephone:
No one else is on the air to whisper:
No one else but you will push the bell.
No one knows if you don’t: neither ships
Nor landing-fields decode the dark between.
You have your eyes and what your eyes see, is.
The earth you see is really the earth you are seeing.
The sun is truly excellent, truly warm,
Women are beautiful as you have seen them—
Their breasts (believe it) like cooing of doves in a portico.
They bear at their breasts tenderness softly. Look at them!
Look at yourselves. You are strong. You are well formed.
Look at the world—the world you never took!
It is really true you may live in the world heedlessly.
Why do you wait to read it in a book then?
Write it yourselves! Write to yourselves if you need to!
Tell yourselves there is sun and the sun will rise.
Tell yourselves the earth has food to feed you.
Let the dead men say that men must die!
Who better than you can know what death is?
How can a bone or a broken body surmise it?
Let the dead shriek with their whispering breath.
Laugh at them! Say the murdered gods may wake
But we who work have end of work together.
Tell yourselves the earth is yours to take!
Waiting for messages out of the dark you were poor.
The world was always yours: you would not take it.”
― New Found Land
Tell me, my patient friends, awaiters of messages.
From what other shore, from what stranger,
Whence, was the word to come? Who was to lesson you?
Listeners under a child’s crib in a manger,
Listeners once by the oracles, now by the transoms,
Whom are you waiting for? Who do you think will explain?
Listeners thousands of years and still no answer—
Writers at night to Miss Lonely-Hearts, awkward spellers,
Open your eyes! There is only earth and the man!
There is only you. There is no one else on the telephone:
No one else is on the air to whisper:
No one else but you will push the bell.
No one knows if you don’t: neither ships
Nor landing-fields decode the dark between.
You have your eyes and what your eyes see, is.
The earth you see is really the earth you are seeing.
The sun is truly excellent, truly warm,
Women are beautiful as you have seen them—
Their breasts (believe it) like cooing of doves in a portico.
They bear at their breasts tenderness softly. Look at them!
Look at yourselves. You are strong. You are well formed.
Look at the world—the world you never took!
It is really true you may live in the world heedlessly.
Why do you wait to read it in a book then?
Write it yourselves! Write to yourselves if you need to!
Tell yourselves there is sun and the sun will rise.
Tell yourselves the earth has food to feed you.
Let the dead men say that men must die!
Who better than you can know what death is?
How can a bone or a broken body surmise it?
Let the dead shriek with their whispering breath.
Laugh at them! Say the murdered gods may wake
But we who work have end of work together.
Tell yourselves the earth is yours to take!
Waiting for messages out of the dark you were poor.
The world was always yours: you would not take it.”
― New Found Land
Modern Greek literature - Σύγχρονη Ελληνική λογοτεχνία
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