Facets of a Diamond – Blog
September 20, 2020
"Go, lovely Rose
……
That are so wondrous sweet and fair."
Edmund Waller
(at 85)
"I envy the octogenarian poet who joined three words – Go, lovely Rose – so happily together, that he left his name to float down through Time on the wings of a phrase and a flower."
Logan Pearsall Smith
(at 66)
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September 17, 2020
The surgeon tells me
– almost en passant –
that he’s left instructions
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September 15, 2020
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
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September 13, 2020
The mantra, “Tat Twam Asi” (“Thou art That”), is the central dictum of the Upanishads. It defines the relationship between Thou, the atman (soul in every being), and That, the transcendent brahman (Absolute), which pervades the whole universe.
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September 10, 2020
To every doctor:
At an unconscious level
every patient is your mother.
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September 6, 2020
In 1939-1940 Stravinsky delivered the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures at Harvard University. They were entitled Poetics of Music.
I feel certain that whoever came up with the title was not a musician. For it is backwards.
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September 3, 2020
What was so wrong
with the wood
that it had to be carved?
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September 1, 2020
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
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August 30, 2020
Outside the supermarket I was immediately attracted to – by – some wondrous patterns on a white traffic line. Of course, I started to photograph them.
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August 27, 2020
Start with Nature
without Man:
a twig, a pebble
– whatever.
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