Atunci si acum Poetry of Robert Frost. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Adrian Paunescu - Repetabila povara. Căţel emigrant « Poezii de Adrian Păunescu. Invictus by William Ernest Henley. Manchester Poetry Prize. The Manchester Poetry Prize is a literary award celebrating excellence in creative writing. It was launched by Carol Ann Duffy and The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2008, and was the first phase of the annual Manchester Writing Competition. Open internationally to writers aged 16 or over, the Manchester Poetry Prize awards a cash prize of £10,000 to the writer of the best portfolio of poems submitted.
In addition, during the 2008 and 2010 Prizes, a bursary for study at MMU (or cash equivalent) was awarded to an entrant aged 18–25 as part of the Jeffrey Wainwright Manchester Young Writer of the Year Award. Entrants are asked to submit a portfolio of poetry (three to five poems; the total length of the portfolio should not exceed 120 lines). The poems can be on any subject but must be new work, not published elsewhere (in print, or online).
Armitage gave a speech before announcing the winners: The winner of the £10,000 first prize was Judy Brown. Winston Churchill: We shall fight on the beaches - edited | From the Guardian. From the moment that the French defences at Sedan and on the Meuse were broken at the end of the second week of May, only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved the British and French armies who had entered Belgium at the appeal of the Belgian king; but this strategic fact was not immediately realised. The French high command hoped they would be able to close the gap, and the armies of the north were under their orders. Moreover, a retirement of this kind would have involved almost certainly the destruction of the fine Belgian army of over 20 divisions and the abandonment of the whole of Belgium.
However, the German eruption swept like a sharp scythe around the right and rear of the armies of the north. Eight or nine armoured divisions, each of about 400 armoured vehicles of different kinds, but carefully assorted to be complementary and divisible into small self-contained units, cut off all communications between us and the main French armies. I return to the army. The 100 Best Books of All Time. Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. For publisher Xanadu, Science Fiction was the first of four "100 Best" books published from 1985 to 1988.
The sequels covered crime & mystery, horror, and fantasy. Lists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Lecţia despre responsabilitate. Ask the Expert: Balance. ~ Michael Finkelstein, M.D. Forma sentimentelor A Lively Mind: Your Brain On Jane Austen : Shots - Health Blog. Hide captionMatt Langione, a subject in the study, reads Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Results from the study suggest that blood flow in the brain differs during leisurely and critical reading activities. L.A. Cicero/Stanford University At a recent academic conference, Michigan State University professor Natalie Phillips stole a glance around the room. Phillips, who studies 18th- and 19th-century literature, says the distracted audience made something pop in her head.
"I love reading, and I am someone who can actually become so absorbed in a novel that I really think the house could possibly burn down around me and I wouldn't notice," she said. For Phillips, Jane Austen became both a literary and a neuroscientific puzzle. Could modern cognitive theories explain character development in one of Austen's most famous heroines — Pride and Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennett? If neuroscience could inform literature, Phillips asked, could literature inform neuroscience?
For Those Who Want to Lead, Read - John Coleman. By John Coleman | 10:00 AM August 15, 2012 When David Petraeus visited the Harvard Kennedy School in 2009, one of the meetings he requested was with author Doris Kearns Goodwin. Petraeus, who holds a PhD in International Relations from Princeton, is a fan of Team of Rivals and wanted time to speak to the famed historian about her work. Apparently, the great general (and current CIA Director) is something of a bibliophile. He’s increasingly an outlier. Even as global literacy rates are high (84%), people are reading less and less deeply. The National Endowment for the Arts (PDF) has found that “[r]eading has declined among every group of adult Americans,” and for the first time in American history, “less than half of the U.S. adult American population is reading literature.”
Literacy has been improving in countries like India and China, but that literacy may not translate into more or deeper reading. Note how many business titans are or have been avid readers. Join a reading group. "M-am luat pe mine însumi ca duhovnic şi psihanalist" - interviu cu Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU. - interviu cu Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU - În jurnalul tău faci figura unui personaj deseori nemulţumit, deprimat, anxios... Dar aceea e o carte, iar eu te întreb aici, într-un interviu, dacă ai frici sau anxietăţi în viaţa personală şi/sau legate de scris, în faţa paginii albe, spre exemplu, sau după terminarea unei trilogii? N-am ştiut pînă acum că fac figura asta în jurnalul meu, îmi pare rău pentru cititor, n-am avut intenţia să-l plictisesc cu problemele mele, ci dimpotrivă, să-l instruiesc şi să-l amuz... Nu ştiam nici că jurnalul meu nu e creditabil pentru că una sînt cărţile (chiar şi jurnalele intime) şi alta viaţa. Dacă textele nu cuprind adevărul, asemenea vieţii, atunci nici interviul ăsta nu-l va cuprinde, fiind şi el tot un text.
Prin urmare, ai s-o scoţi cu greu la capăt cu mine! Mai ales că prefer discuţiile faţă-n faţă, nu culcat pe canapeaua psihanalistului, poziţie submisivă care nu-mi provoacă decît suspiciune. Da, generaţia mea e acum praf şi pulbere, mult înainte de vreme. Citizenship in a Republic: The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt @ LeadershipNow. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. My position as regards the moneyed interests can be put in a few words. „Poezia, draga de ea, e de o cruzime feroce!“ Mentenanţa limbii române » Sã mai şi zâmbim… Karioka: Uraste-i pe toti. Dar cumpara-le suplimente. Asta e campania: Si asta e opinia mea vizavi de ea: Mesajul, oricare ar fi el, e extrem de prost formulat. E jignitor, diletant si dureros. Autismul sau Alzheimerul nu sunt curabile in momentul de fata prin administrarea vreunui supliment alimentar. Explicatia celor care au creat clipurile e ca ideea nu era sa urasti pacientul ci boala. Quote:"Uraste-ti baietelul care a devenit de nestapanit.
Si tu vii si-mi spui, stimabile imbecil, purta-mi-ai papucii macar un an din viata ta, ca:"Uraste-l, pentru ca acesta nu este tatal tau. "Dar tot ce-am facut vrodata a fost pentru tine. pentru tine traiesc, pentru tine incerc. Apoi a recazut in mutenie. insa de atunci am refuzat sa o mai privesc ca pe o boala. Si nu, nu am urat-o niciodata. Si stupiditatea continua, fireste. "Grabeste-te, fiecare zi e importanta. "Este doar boala care incet, incet ia chipul lui. Singurul lucru care trebuie urat sunteti voi. Prayer of Forgiveness. The Story Behind “Caine’s Arcade” Two weeks ago, the planet’s most unlikely film star turned from a Ugandan warlord to a nine-year-old kid who runs a homemade cardboard arcade out of his dad’s used-auto-parts store, Smart Parts, in East Los Angeles.
Invisible children to a child’s imagination: the world could smile again. “Caine’s Arcade,” an eleven-minute film about Caine Monroy and his first customer, a struggling filmmaker named Nirvan Mullick, quickly acquired all the metrics of a viral sensation: millions of YouTube views, a top trending topic on Twitter worldwide, the Reddit front page, a call from Letterman’s people. The adulations flooded Mullick’s inbox, including one from the hacker collective Anonymous: “I commend you for your great work. You should be proud,” the e-mail read. “It felt as though I had been knighted by the Internet,” Mullick told me. And this is just how the grownups reacted. That story unfolds like so: Caine, a shy boy with an active imagination who loves to make things. Asemeni focului, asemeni panicii, asemeni iubirii
“Poezia este incompatibilă cu cea mai minimă îngrădire dogmatică. Imensul ei spațiu demonstrează cât este de insuficient tot ce poate fi imaginat ca formă sau figură. Sensul ei este “sensul a ceea ce trebuie relevat, sensul miracolului necesar” (Novalis). Poezia este un avans, un promiţător avans, o profeţie a gândirii noi şi reale. În jocul magnific de umbre şi de lumini al perturbaţiunii, verbul îşi regăseşte funcţia reală de realizare, omul speriat, bântuit de propriile lui creaţii, îşi regăseşte posibilităţile de intervenţie şi de legătură. POEZIA este o ştiinţă a acţiunii. Tehnicile ei îşi au locul firesc lângă marile tehnici ale acţiunii. Legăturile pe care ea le asigură sunt de natură magică: graţie ei, oamenii îşi regăsesc contactul; dar acest contact este asemeni focului, asemeni panicii, asemeni iubirii, asemeni apei, asemeni revoltei, asemeni morţii care ne primeşte sângele.” Gellu Naum, 1946, Castelul orbilor Newton – desen realizat de Gellu Naum în anul 1944. Huxley Vs. Orwell: Infinite Distraction Or Government Oppression?
Posted on August 24, 2010 in Images The Huxley vs Orwell comic is originally from Recombinant Records: Amusing Ourselves to Death, adapted from Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman. When I read this comic, I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Brave New World: “It’s curious,” he went on after a little pause, “to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to have imagined that it could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness.
And: There was something called liberalism. Sand Art Video. Wow, dude. Via Ariana Saraha, who emailed this out to her pals the other day, comes this super-cool 420-worthy video. This is absolutely breathtaking – I’ve never seen anything like it! May it bless you with the ever-transforming joy of presence here on this sacred Earth Day…Love, Ariana If you liked this, you might like these: Recent Trackbacks Andrei (riz3) | Pearltrees [...] Charlie Chaplin: Organic, Badass Example for Modern Times. When my partner first told me that he loved Charlie Chaplin, I thought maybe he was joking or that he was one of those people who really, really liked clowns and ferris wheels. Although we are both pseudo film snobs, he alone has long loved this iconic, badass artist. I didn’t know anything about Chaplin except that he had big shoes, seemingly one change of clothing and was played by Robert Downey Jr. (who used the opportunity to jump-start his career).
I think that’s how most people in the US remember Charlie Chaplin, too, and that’s why I’m writing this post. Chaplin is really famous abroad, but was pushed into the shadow of American consciousness when he was banned from the US during the McCarthy ‘red scare‘ era. We could really use a bit of his influence right now in the States, though. It’s election season, and—head in hands—we’re at a loss for what to do or even how to think about the way our country runs anymore. Check out this timeless speech from The Great Dictator: About Emily Alp. The Fight You Don't Get to Leave. ~ JJ Roitman. He was snoring, too deep in sleep to notice the cold air, or the cold heart that hovered over him, I wanted to dig my nails into his little butt cheeks.
A few minutes before I was also in a deep sleep, until a sound from the great beyond came up and crawled into my quiet place. Like a sudden intruder barging into my personal night, my husband made a crashing grumble that resembled the choke of a car engine and a dying a person. I hated his snoring. And no, hate is not too harsh a word for the middle of the night, when the sweet call of sleep beckons alongside a jack hammer.
My poor husband lie naked with goosebumps because he had no covers over him, while his loving wife sat with clenched fists. I threw the covers on him and said in a nasty terrifying tone, “aren’t you cold?” As I flopped down next to him I got a speck of relief as my elbow pressed hard into his back. And then he woke up. We spent the rest of the night trying to work ourselves out of the knot I had caused. Wife. “Please. Quote of the Day: Love Your Solitude. Some poets we love. Others, we just need. And then there are those who we can’t help but love and need (and want). Rainer Maria Rilke does all three for me. In light and in darkness. “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.
For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. Now, if he had just met Audrey… I have to be alone very often. Click here for a quick, free e-course on How to Be Alone. ~ Like elephant culture and elephant literary journal on Facebook About Andrea Balt Co-Founder / Editor in Chief of Rebelle Society, Wellness Alchemist at Rebelle Wellness & Creativity Curator at Creative Rehab. If you liked this, you might like these: Womanhood & the Reawakening of My Erotic Innocence. Letting go isn't pretty. Pablo Neruda, a poet for sad, bad mornings. Plus, Trungpa: tonglen. Chogyam Trungpa, Buddhist guru, on the role of sadness in everyday life. I WILL FU#%ING PULL GREATNESS OUT OF YOU | WhatsYourName | 5,000+ likes | 22. Summer Hours (2008. Octavian Paler – Deșertul pentru totdeauna « FotoCitate. Confucius Quotes. I love words / i can read picture on VisualizeUs. Words that speak to the soul.
I love words / i can read picture on VisualizeUs.