"Poetry is either rejected as a frivolous mooning and vaporizing into the unknown, and a flight into dreamland, or is counted as a part of literature. And the validity of literature is assessed by the latest prevailing standard. The prevailing standard, in turn, is made and controlled by the organs for making public civilized opinions."
[from "...Poetically Man Dwells..." by Martin Heidegger]
notes from the underground: my attempt to keep the things I read in my brain
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in each sister and brother
If God comes down to earth through [the] Son made flesh, then we ascend toward heaven through Jesus present in each sister and brother for ...
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"Eight O'Clock Coffee, 1935" by Ralph Steiner People in this town drink too much coffee. They're jumpy all the time. You ...
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Pennsylvania Landscape, 1941 by Andrew Wyeth I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape -- the loneliness ...
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