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Maugham in “The Razor’s Edge”
<< The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." — Katha-Upanishad >> Epigraph for The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Truth and Beauty vs. the Dominating “I” by Eve Grubin
If “Imagination is evidence of the Divine” then, as John Keats wrote in a letter, “What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.” When something beautiful captured Eve’s imagination, she knew it was…
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Poem for the Beginning of Summer
Silence by Marianne Moore My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow’s grave nor the glass flowers at Harvard. Self reliant like the cat – that…
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“The Imagination is the Body of God” by Eve Grubin
Yesterday I wrote that the biblical Eve lived in, as Goethe called it, “the poet’s trance.” But then the snake seduced her out of that place of passionate clarity. Rabbi Moses ben Naḥman, otherwise…
