Emily Dickinson has the self in her poetry dissolve in the paradoxes she creates beyond which she seeks enlightenment. The haiku, which ofte...

What I found that I was good at doing, and what I really enjoyed the most, was the game of “What if?” What if you combined Brecht-Weill musi...

A rococo beauty is being swung to and fro in a tastefully coiffed, as it were, charmingly frilly park, while her admirer occupies himself...

When first my lines of heav’nly joys made mention, Such was their lustre, they did so excel, That I sought out quaint words and trim inven...

When I said that poetry tries and wants to make contact with reality, that is, with uttermost-being (truth, God, whatness, somethingness-not...

Merely because poet and modern society are in conflict does not mean art necessarily gains by freedom. It is a sentimental error to think Em...

By the time most of us have reached early adulthood, our executive ego has had a doctorate education while our bodily instincts may still be...

... Loving someone who does not love you may lead to writing impenetrable poems and/or staying awake until dawn, drawn to airy, azure rit...

“In solitude, we give passionate attention to our lives,  to our memories, to the details around us.” Explained  Virginia Woolf. “Here, in...

Lyric is still pre-eminently the non-social genre: though normative narrative and normative drama require at least two characters and are th...

Having been tenant long to a rich lord,     Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,     And make a suit unto him, to afford A new small-rent...

We grow accustomed to the Dark – When light is put away – As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye – A Moment – We un...

As with so many of my paintings I started with marks all over the surface such as those on top and the right sides. The smaller figure em...

The business of teachers is to discover and then to demand all the authority that flows from their obligations as teachers. That is their gi...

Part of any good artist's work is to find a right balance between the independence born of willing solitude and the ability to speak for...