Feeling is to lose a major league game.
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!
Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
We're looking to identify funds if we can. We're also looking at other resources to assist the government in making this a reality,. . . At this point, we don't have a particular source of funding for that but we're still looking if we could help in finding another way to assist.