“Poetry is the plough that turns up time, so that the deepest layer, it...” — Osip Mandelstam Quote

“Poetry is the plough that turns up time, so that the deepest layer, its black earth, is on top.”

“Where to start?”

“My turn shall also come:”

“We measure time by its deaths, yes, and by its births. For time is told also by life. As some depart, others come. The hand opened in farewell remains open in welcome. I, who once had grandparents and parents, now have children and grandchildren. Like the flowing river that is yet always present, time that is always going is always coming. And time that is told by death and birth is held and redeemed by love, which is always present. Time, then, is told by love’s losses, and by the coming of love, and by love continuing in gratitude for what is lost. It is folded and enfolded and unfolded forever and ever, the love by which the dead are alive and the unborn welcomed into the womb. The great question for the old and the dying, I think, is not if they have loved and been loved enough, but if they have been grateful enough for love received and given, however much. No one who has gratitude is the onliest one. Let us pray to be grateful to the last.”

“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”

“I can hear a distant whisper,”

“Time’s Greatest Illusion? Thinking There Is Enough”

“The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.”