Whatever is splendid in humanity
This lovely phrase about sums up what motivated me to create this and other websites, to celebrate...
Particles of human life
This week, glad to share fine metaphors both written by journalists. Here The Economist pays a suitably eloquent and moving tribute...
Tapping into the current
Lawrence Durrell was a superb poet and I found his definition of poetry intriguing. While I'm not sure it always...
Ahead of his time
While I believe that 'cold statistics' properly deployed, can in fact help us take account of people's feelings and traditions,...
Poems for my family 003 – Donne
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
This is the third poem I chose to share with my family, copied out by...
The yearning for freedom
As far as I can see, from both history and 'current events', there's not much evidence to suggest that the...
Global folly, global range
One of the pitfalls of globalization is the greater range for damaging stupidity which might formerly have been more easily...
On poetry and human feeling
Apart from pointing me to some translations of Catullus that may propel to me a new level of human feeling,...
The book of life
'A million species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction. Three-quarters of the world's land and two-thirds of its...
The gift of our stories
Robert Chandler is a translator of one of my most admired tellers of human stories, Vasily Grossman. Â Grossman's skill lies...
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