Friday, September 4, 2009

A man and a woman and a blackbird are one.


 
I
"Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird."
IV
"A man and a woman
Are one,
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one."
—Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

1 comment:

Phil and Paula Gable said...

This is one of my all time favorite poems. Wallace Stevens had a neat way of seeing things. I love the sketch too.

Reflections on Talks on Buddha's Lists

During a recent Appamada Intensive our students gave talks on Buddha's lists. Here are my reflections on their talks.