“Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.” IfsLittlesBeautifulPoetMereCloudsLiarsMakersHumankindWiserElegantVisionariesMadmenPerplexityFalsityUnknowing Book:Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad Source: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.” IfsPoetPaperCloudsOnenessSheetsFloatingInterbeing Author:Nhat Hanh
“What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.” KnowsLooksPoetrySkyPoetCriticsCloudsPoetry IsProfessors Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.” PoetryLiteratureBreakFieldsPoetWesternCloudsTrackSubstanceSurroundAssociationDiscourseChamberParticlesCollisionConnotation Author:George Steiner
“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.” DreamEyePoetryWomenPerfectBeautyPoetCloudsPoetry IsPaleRhymeEyelidsPerfect Beauty Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.” AbilityTeachCuttingHeardTreeTeachingPoetPaperRainProfoundWestCloudsSignificantEmptinessSheetsLampsDharmaEloquenceInterdependenceCarrierThich Nhat HanhRain Clouds Author:Jack Kornfield