She has not yet been born: she is music and word, and therefore the untorn, fabric of what is stirred. Silent the ocean breathes. Madly day’s glitter roams. Spray of pale lilac foams, in a bowl of grey-blue leaves. May my lips rehearse the primordial silence, like a note of crystal clearness, sounding, pure from […]
Les mer»A flame is in my blood burning dry life, to the bone. I do not sing of stone, now, I sing of wood. It is light and coarse: made of a single spar, the oak’s deep heart, and the fisherman’s oar. Drive them deep, the piles: hammer them in tight, around wooden Paradise, where everything […]
Les mer»Among the ancients, one of the most valuable skills was the ability to cast some light on the future, particularly when important decisions were to be made. But that skill depended on the ability to remember. The past was the source of light, and man’s relationship to temporality was characterized by a constant contemplation of […]
Les mer»1. Et punkt er det som ikke kan deles. 2. En linje er en lengde uten bredde. 3. Endene av en linje er punkter. 4. En rett linje er den som ligger jevnt mellom sine punkter. 5. En flate er det som bare har lengde og bredde. 6. Endene av en flate er linjer. Euklids […]
Les mer»Den store fortelleren Den daglige gjerning å åpne menneskets ånd for dagens under Å du Guds uknuselige speil Takk for at du bøyer mine knær daglig og om natten under stjernene Arnold Eidslott Nettene under Kapp Hoorn (2000)
Les mer»She tearfully broke into verse: «This street, this house, don’t come here again – now I have left the place, so there is no one for you.» Farzana, a Banr Bazaar dancer in Mingora, Swat-valley, who fled to Peshawar, after their teacher Shabana was killed on January 2.
Les mer»a crime against the spirit …. a doctrine which, denying all spiritual, rational, or moral values on the basis on which the peoples of the world have attempted for millenia to move the human condition forward, is aimed at casting humanity into a conscious barbarism ….. using for its purposes all the material resources made […]
Les mer»Shadows are falling and I’ve been here all day It’s too hot to sleep time is running away Feel like my soul has turned into steel I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal There’s not even room enough to be anywhere It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there Well my sense […]
Les mer»The air is getting hotter There’s a rumbling in the skies I’ve been wading through the high muddy water With the heat rising in my eyes Every day your memory grows dimmer It doesn’t haunt me like it did before I’ve been walking through the middle of nowhere Trying to get to heaven before they […]
Les mer»Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’. Bob Dylan, 1963
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