Stephen Greenblatt Tuesday, October 4, ’22. The Poetry Almanac

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
Albert Einstein
Fernando Botero – The Dancers, 1987.
“Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig”
—Stephen Greenblatt
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
“When I encounter the Lord in prayer, I become joyful. Each one of us becomes joyful, a beautiful thing. Sadness, or fear, on the other hand, are signs of distance from God… Those who turn away from the Lord are never happy, even though they have an abundance of possessions and possibilities at their disposal.”
Pope Francis