Weekly updates and insights on Arts Management practice. Part of the ArtsManaged bundle of Field Guide, Field Notes, and YouTube Videos (see links for details).
Weekly updates and insights on Arts Management practice. Part of the ArtsManaged bundle of Field Guide, Field Notes, and YouTube Videos (see links for details).
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known. David Wagoner, from "Lost"
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First you figure out what each one means by itself,
the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop
full of moonlight.
Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.Mary Oliver, from "Breakage"
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Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take. David Whyte, from "Start Close In"
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We are so honored that you are here, they said. We know that this is your homeland, they said. The admission price is five dollars, they said. Here is your button for the event, they said. It means so much to us that you are here, they said. We want to write an apology letter,...
What good
is accuracy amidst the perpetual
scattering that unspools the world.
Ada Limón, from "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
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Put a finger to my wrist or my temple and feel it: I am magic. Life and all its good and bad and ugly things, scary things which I would like to forget, beautiful things which I would like to remember —the whole messy lovely true story of myself pulses within me. Eve L. Ewing, from...
We all have reasonsfor moving.I moveto keep things whole.Mark Strand, from "Keeping Things Whole"
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I read somewhere that if pedestrians didn’t break traffic laws to cross Times Square whenever and by whatever means possible, the whole city would stop, it would stop. Cars would back up to Rhode Island, an epic gridlock not even a cat could thread through. It’s not law but the sprawl of...
There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
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Will you ever bring a better gift for the worldthan the breathing respect that you carrywherever you go right now?William Stafford, from "You Reading This, Be Ready"
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