May 2012
29 posts
“One must read, try to possess by memory, and be possessed by the very best that...”
– Harold Bloom (via settledthingsstrange)
Settled Things Strange: And Yet the Books →
settledthingsstrange:
And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts under a tree in autumn, And, touched, coddled, began to live In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up, Tribes on the march, planets in motion. “We are, ” they said, even as…
“We are not in a state of “divine discontent”; we are in an entirely human and...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Utopia of Usurers (via gkchestertonquote)
“The men in the workshops told me stories about the master craftsmen who once...”
– New Statesman - Paved with gold (via ayjay)
“At 9 o’clock (the Opera began at 8) a lady came in and sat down very...”
– G. B. Shaw, 1905 (via ayjay)
“So for [furniture maker Harrison] Higgins, there is no simplistic opposition...”
– Jamie Smith, “Artificial Grace: Why the Creation Needs Human Creativity.” I might add that when we say Jesus was a carpenter, the Greek word there is tekton: maker, builder. (via ayjay)
“The dragon is certainly the most cosmopolitan of impossibilities”
– G.K. Chesterton, written at age 16, quoted by Masie Ward (via gkchestertonquote)
“Certainly, God has given a sign of Himself in the greatness and power of the...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, The Hidden God (via themorningstars)
“Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish—separating spirit...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World (via recycledsoul)
“In biblical terms, it is wisdom we need to live together in this world. Wisdom...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World (via recycledsoul)
“Myers contends that Christians are spending an inordinate amount of attention on...”
– Chaplain Mike, “Which ‘Culture’ Most Threatens the Church?” (via settledthingsstrange)
“We cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that...”
– a public school teacher in Manhattan, “Teach the Books, Touch the Heart,” NY Times (via settledthingsstrange)
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
– Chekhov (via wwnorton)
W. W. Norton: An Early Afterlife →
wwnorton:
“…a wise man in time of peace, shall make the necessary preparations for war.” –Horace
Why don’t we say goodbye right now in the fallacy of perfect health before whatever is going to happen happens. We could perfect our parting, like those characters in On the Beach who said farewell in…
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
– Chekhov (via wwnorton)
“Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“One of the failings of Marvel—as of other franchises, like the “Superman”...”
– “The Avengers,” “Headhunters” Reviews : The New Yorker. I love Anthony Lane. Also, I can’t wait to see this movie. (via ayjay)
“I’m a magpie for weird words.”
– Cathy Park Hong, quoted in The Paris Review (via wwnorton)
“Our historians lie much more than our journalists; our fashionable conceptions...”
– G.K. Chesterton in an introduction to Famous Paintings (via gkchestertonquote)
This is surprisingly consonant with what Dr. Hart said about tradition in his Lecture for Interregnum the other week, that there is nothing more new than our ancient traditions.
Eternal Revolution Blog: Introducing G.K.... →
eternalrevolt:
Today I am going to start a new project here on this blog that will take some time to complete. But it is something I have been very excited about for some time.
G.K. Chesterton, before he was able to support himself and his wife on his own writing, worked as an editor as well as a journalist. In…
“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”
– May Sarton, born May 3, 1912 (via wwnorton)
more than 95 theses: modernity, as explained in a... →
ayjay:
So an age ended, and its last deliverer died In bed, grown idle and unhappy; they were safe: The sudden shadow of a giant’s enormous calf Would fall no more at dusk across their lawns outside.
They slept in peace: in marshes here and there no doubt A sterile dragon lingered to a natural…
“I’ve been struck recently by how many of my clients are ashamed to go to their...”
– Eve Tushnet (via wesleyhill)
“The term “imagination” in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental...”
– Wendell Berry, “It All Turns On Affection” (via jeffreyoverstreet)
