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Jena Woodhouse

"Before the sun and the night and the blue sea, I vow to stand faithfully by all that is brave and beautiful; to seek adventure, and having discovered aught of wonder, or delight; of merriment or loveliness, to share it freely with my comrades..."

- from The Argonauts' Pledge, written by Nina Murdoch for the Radio Australia youth programme, The Argonauts' Club -

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If this page contains anything of worth, I dedicate this to the whales and all creatures in need of protection, and to those who seek to protect them.

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Если душа родилась крылатой -
Что ей хоромы и что ей хаты!
Что Чингисхан ей - и что - Орда!
Два на миру у меня врага,
Два близнеца - неразрывно-слитых:
Голод голодных - и сытость сытых!

- Марина Цветаева, 18 августа 1918 -

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I do not write to keep. I write to feel.
I try to touch the body of the instant
with the tips of the words.

- Helene Cixous: "Stigmata" -

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The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will.

- Czeslaw Milosz: "Ars Poetica" -

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.......Throw that emptiness
out of your arms and into the air that we breathe:
does it widen the sky for the birds - add zest to their flight?
Yes, YOU were needed. Every Spring needed you.
Even stars relied on your witnessing presence
when a gathering wave surged from the past - or when
some violin utterly offered itself
as you passed by a half-open window.
All this was your mission.

- Rainer Maria Rilke: "The First Elegy" -

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...the poem...is expressly made to be reborn from its ashes, perpetually to be again what it has been...

...poetry orders the depths of our being, for it aims to provoke or reproduce the unity and harmony of the living person, an extraordinary unity which manifests itself when a person is possessed by an intense feeling which leaves none of his or her powers unaffected.

- Paul Valery -

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AS MUCH AS YOU CAN

And if you can't shape your life the way you want,
at least try as much as you can
not to degrade it
by too much contact with the world,
by too much activity and talk.

Try not to degrade it by dragging it along,
taking it around and exposing it so often
to the daily silliness
of social events and parties,
until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.

THERMOPYLAE

Honour to those who in the life they lead
define and guard a Thermopylae.
Never betraying what is right,
consistent and just in all they do
but showing pity also, and compassion;
generous when they are rich,
and when they are poor,
still generous in small ways,
still helping as much as they can;
always speaking the truth,
yet without hating those who lie.

And even more honour is due to them
when they foresee (as many do foresee)
that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance,
that the Medes will break through after all.

~~~~Konstantinos Kavafis (Constantine Cavafy)~~~~
Translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

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Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and to follow.
- Chinese proverb -

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The human body is vapour materialised by sunshine and mixed with the life of stars.

- Paracelsus -

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Little soul, little wanderer, little charmer,
body's guest and companion,
for which places will you set out now?
For darkling, cold and gloomy ones -
and you won't make your usual jokes.

- Hadrian, emperor of Rome -

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Decalogue of the Artist

I. You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of God
over the Universe.

II.There is no godless art. Although you love not the
Creator, you shall bear witness to Him creating His likeness.

III.You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul.

IV. You shall never use beauty as a pretext for luxury
and vanity but as a spiritual devotion.

V. You shall not seek beauty at carnival or fair
or offer your work there, for beauty is virginal
and is not to be found at carnival or fair.

VI. Beauty shall rise from your heart in song,
and you shall be the first to be purified.

VII.The beauty you create shall be known
as compassion and shall console the hearts of men.

VIII.You shall bring forth your work as a mother
brings forth her child: out of the blood of your heart.

IX. Beauty shall not be an opiate that puts you
to sleep but a strong wine that fires you to action,
for if you fail to be a true man or a true woman,
you will fail to be an artist.

X. Each act of creation shall leave you humble,
for it is never as great as your dream and always
inferior to that most marvelous dream of God
which is Nature. (Gabriela Mistral 1889-1957)

Произведения

Pleasure of ruins - стихи на других языках, 12.02.2012 07:18

Abschied - стихи на других языках, 08.02.2012 10:46

Like a lotus - стихи на других языках, 30.01.2012 09:14

Rhyme for a rainy night - стихи на других языках, 24.01.2012 09:26

Bird of Air and Fire - стихи на других языках, 23.01.2012 08:29

Lines for Liz - стихи на других языках, 09.01.2012 09:31

Anamniseis 2 - стихи на других языках, 03.01.2012 12:02

Like a Diva - стихи на других языках, 30.12.2011 11:54

Birdsong - стихи на других языках, 30.12.2011 09:38

Saturday nights at the Myola - стихи на других языках, 16.12.2008 11:51

Under the tower - стихи на других языках, 16.11.2011 07:59

A Mariner from Kythera - стихи на других языках, 13.11.2011 09:11

Villa of Herodes Atticus - стихи на других языках, 09.11.2011 10:40

The Lady Walk - стихи на других языках, 09.11.2011 07:23

The Red Hind - стихи на других языках, 09.11.2011 07:01

From afar - стихи на других языках, 31.10.2011 09:46

On Lykavittos - стихи на других языках, 30.10.2011 07:00

The Theatre of Dionysos - стихи на других языках, 22.10.2011 21:08

Filoxenia - стихи на других языках, 21.10.2011 16:59

If I could film her reading on the train - стихи на других языках, 27.03.2011 20:27

Tamata - стихи на других языках, 14.10.2011 18:30

Moment of kenosis - стихи на других языках, 14.10.2011 17:35

Marathon and unicorns - стихи на других языках, 11.10.2011 17:49

Wild geese at Hawthornden - стихи на других языках, 10.10.2011 18:46

Epistrofi - стихи на других языках, 08.10.2011 22:40

A waif in Schliemann s garden - стихи на других языках, 07.10.2011 20:21

Eros fugit - стихи на других языках, 06.10.2011 18:01

Vlanes - Another Babylon - Book Launch - эссе и статьи, 28.08.2011 08:19

The fairest thing - стихи на других языках, 01.08.2011 12:45

Estuary at sunrise - стихи на других языках, 31.07.2011 08:12

For this - стихи на других языках, 29.07.2011 13:05

The dew still on them - стихи на других языках, 30.08.2008 05:15

A place to stay - стихи на других языках, 16.07.2011 10:22

Quandamooka found poem - стихи на других языках, 16.07.2011 10:15

Anonymous gifts 2 - стихи на других языках, 15.07.2011 07:09

The Esplanade, Wynnum - стихи на других языках, 10.07.2011 14:54

Soliloquy for a dead soldier - стихи на других языках, 26.06.2011 10:38

Anonymous gifts - стихи на других языках, 21.06.2011 08:32

Wild bird - стихи на других языках, 18.06.2011 12:10

Only the sea - стихи на других языках, 12.06.2011 10:21

Skylight - стихи на других языках, 25.05.2011 09:45

Nursery rhyme - стихи на других языках, 02.05.2011 08:39

May evening near Mystras - стихи на других языках, 13.04.2011 09:57

Chasuble - стихи на других языках, 01.04.2011 08:40

from Black Angel of Liberty - стихи на других языках, 25.03.2011 09:20

Feeling the heat - стихи на других языках, 23.03.2011 06:42

Temple of Athena Parthenis - стихи на других языках, 22.03.2011 08:01

from Poems about Moscow - Marina Tsvetaeva - поэтические переводы, 21.03.2011 04:42

Consuming beauty - стихи на других языках, 20.03.2011 07:33

The Bridegroom s Hands - стихи на других языках, 13.03.2011 08:45

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