Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
– Martin Heidegger, Building Dwelling Thinking
Eidolons October 18, 2006
Posted by mwj as art, poetry, religion. add a comment.Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
–Walt Whitman
The star-spangled Anacreon May 1, 2006
Posted by mwj as poetry, politics. 1 comment so far.So apparently the American national anthem is based on a drinking song entitled To Anacreon in Heaven.
Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics originally as a poem about the defense of Baltimore in a key battle of the War of 1812, but they were soon adapted to this stylishly bawdy song honouring the early Greek poet Anacreon. The melody had become a theme song for The Anacreontic Society, a group which was “dedicated to “wit, harmony, and the god of wine.”
Thanks to KnowledgeNews for this one.
Eliot March 19, 2006
Posted by mwj as poetry, writing. add a comment.garlic and sapphires in the mud
and the rose and the fire are one
like a patient etherised upon a table
Rumbling February 11, 2006
Posted by mwj as poetry, technology. 2 comments. 
Master, do you hear the New,
rumbling and quaking?
Harbingers arrive
to proclaim its reign.