In spite of history…

In the Monday mailbox…

Every human being, whether they readily admit it to themselves, wishes to be remembered and remembered kindly. The ultimate vanity of personhood is the wish not to have lived in vain. – Maria Popova. Maria's observation on the vanity of personhood is part of one of the very best issues of her recent blog “The Marginailian” and includes a remarkable commentary on the eclectic nature of imagination and creativity by Nick Cave.

"For every poet it is always morning in the world. History a forgotten, insomniac night; History and elemental awe are always our early beginning, because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History." – Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.