“The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.” PoetEnglandWestJew Author:Steven T. Katz
“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.” WorldWritingHeartSeemsFallWaitingMillionsTelevisionPoetTerribleWestStaringBombsTemporaryDeclineShelterExplosionsRockets Author:Randall Jarrell
“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
“Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.” WritingSimpleTeacherPoetMastersWestClarityBuddhistCombinationBelovedTouchedActivistCompassionateScholarMysticLuminousVietnameseZen MasterThich Nhat Hanh Author:Joanna Macy
“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.” KindSidesWalksImaginePoetWalkingDramaWestParisNeighborhoodManhattanApprenticeshipWest SideLorcaPeruvians Author:Edward Hirsch