Michele Pasin / Quotes

L'enigma è il quotidiano

I versi dell’haiku non sono scelti a caso, ma esprimono la difficile coesistenza degli opposti. Del resto, parliamo di difficoltà solo perché siamo troppo attaccati alle polarità né sappiamo rinunciarvi. In realtà l’haiku non cela nulla, anzi dischiude il senso della vita. Ci rammenta che l’enigma è il quotidiano, o la povertà wabi. Tanto peggio se l’esorcista del nudo, il dogmatico intellettualoide incapace di slanci lirici, accuserà l’haiku di inconsistenza metafisica. Basho non parla per lui, ma intona il suo canto alla natura, nello spirito shintoista che mai lo abbandonò. «La quercia sembra non curarsi dei ciliegi in fiore.»

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#poetry #nature #nondualism #shinto

All the world's a stage

As Jacques famously put it in Shakespeare’s As You Like It: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #role #society #identity #poetry

Awareness of transience and transcendence

Comprehending reality for him was an emotive as well as intellectual achievement; his calligraphy and poetry, renowned in their own right, evince an acute…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #poetry

Beauty is the beginning of terror

The moorhens were gliding toward me across the burning black water. Somehow they were both moving and staying still at one and the same time. There was a…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #beauty #fear #poetry #psychedelics

Considero valore

Ecco, io sono così. A me i soldi servono per vivere come voglio io, ma sono altre le cose che mi eccitano. Mi piace anche il passo di quella bellissima poesia…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #values #simplicity #poetry

I contain multitudes

Although most people find the idea of multiple-personality disorder strange and alien, many, perhaps the majority, buy into a weaker idea of multiplicity. For…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #multiple-selves #self #poetry

Is science the poetry of reality?

Dawkins is on less secure ground when he claims that "science is the poetry of reality". Poets would no doubt claim that poetry is also a portrait – sometimes…

An Appetite For Wonder By Richard Dawkins – Review (richard Fortey) #poetry #reality #phrases