“Armed strife and violent conflict between and among people are as old as human experience itself, older perhaps than singing, and certainly predating the writing of verse. Awareness of wars near and far, inner and outer, must always be a… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“Spain is a million things, it’s lantanas and hibiscus, it’s roses that aren’t ashamed to split their skirts for love, rude flowers pushing out… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“An angel bends the date palm branch within Joseph’s reach. I am neither the angel nor Joseph, but am the hunger One knows intimately… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what a seasonless world might mean for poets, for poems. Shall I compare thee to a weirdly hot, dry purgatorial spell of days broken by torrential spates of relentless rain whose climactic aberrations may be caused by… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share
“In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that is, it… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“Armed strife and violent conflict between and among people are as old as human experience itself, older perhaps than singing, and certainly predating the… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“William Blake admired the work of William Wordsworth but is said to have once been so mad at him over a theological point in… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
