Like a house that stays standing
Recently, I've been turning over in my mind poems learned by heart, and searching the memory banks of some once...
Ill guidance, bad leadership
A strikingly modern sounding comment by Dante, resonating painfully when the evening news seems to be forever picking apart the...
Mercury as maestro
I love this depiction of Mercury as a gold-baton waving maestro easing our passage. May he play you a world-embracing symphony.
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The tum-ti-tums of poetry
The best and most memorable summary of the difference between an 'iambic', a 'spondee' and a 'trochee', by the author...
Of abundant overflow
What causes creativity to spring forth? I like Seamus Heaney's idea that it is not so much reactive as a...
Made up and yet true
A piercing rationale for the arts, if a rationale is needed. They are made up, but ...
And this is anger
Dante's description of Anger is gloriously conveyed in Clive James' translation by the delicious echo of 'plots and plans' in...
Frayed by sin
A surprising one, this, as sin is often presented, nowadays, as socially acceptable, even desirable 'vice' - something naughty-but-nice, essentially...
Ever-present goodness
Sir Philip Sidney suggests that poetry can ease the pain of our 'death-dealing sins' by providing the consolation of 'never-leaving...
Speed meets beauty
One of the most vivid and original similes I have come across is Ted Hughes' description of the two dazzling...
Can there be any day but this?
These lovely lines are from George Herbert's poem 'Easter', and that is the day of which he says there is...
Well-ordered spirit
Three simple words perhaps summing up the pinnacle of much spiritual seeking, especially if once reached, it spills over with...
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