Tag Archives: poetry

The three non-existing princes

Posted on 24 May, 2019 by amartingarcia

A young boy asked his nanny to tell him a story, and the nanny told him the following story to which the boy listened with great attention: Once upon a time in a city which did not exist, there were … Continue reading →

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Plato on art and poetry misunderstood

Posted on 9 December, 2014 by amartingarcia

Unfounded criticism of Plato on poetry and the arts redressed. Misunderstanding of Plato’s ideas and intentions on these topics revealed and countered. Continue reading →

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Keeping watch

Posted on 11 May, 2014 by amartingarcia

Keeping Watch In the morning When I began to wake, It happened again – That feeling That You, Beloved, Had stood over me all night Keeping watch, That feeling That as soon as I began to stir You put Your … Continue reading →

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On love, beauty, and knowledge

Posted on 3 January, 2014 by amartingarcia

(From an exchange in internet) My position, as I wrote to S.: We are love and the product of love, no? Traditional Advaita Vedanta talks of desire as the root cause of existence, but, in the end, it is the same … Continue reading →

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Theseus – Shakespeare

Posted on 7 April, 2013 by amartingarcia

ACT V SCENE I. Athens. An Apartment in the Palace of THESEUS. [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants.] HIPPOLYTA ‘Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. THESEUS More strange than true. I never may believe These antique … Continue reading →

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The poetry of madness (Plato)

Posted on 10 September, 2011 by amartingarcia

“And if any man come to the gates of poetry without the madness of the Muses, persuaded that skill alone will make him a good poet, then shall him and his woks of sanity with him be brought to nought … Continue reading →

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I am the life of life (Rumi)

Posted on 11 June, 2011 by amartingarcia

I am the life of life. I am that cat, this stone, no one. I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag, I see and know all times and worlds as one, one, always one. Rumi

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‘Thoughts’, poetry and imagination

Posted on 17 May, 2011 by amartingarcia

… if thoughts must needs be, arising spontaneously as they do in this restless mind of ours, what better thoughts than those inspired in the poet’s soul, a poet who, as a true lover, is ‘of imaginaton all compact’? Imagination – … Continue reading →

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Do not go to the garden of flowers!…

Posted on 10 May, 2011 by amartingarcia

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty Kabir  (trans. … Continue reading →

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This is not imagination… Rumi

Posted on 21 April, 2011 by amartingarcia

This we have now is not imagination.      This is not grief or joy.    Not a judging state,    or an elation, or sadness.    Those come and go.      This is the presence that doesn’t.    … Continue reading →

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