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CWingUexkull: That fragment has a more evocative translation by Brooks Haxton that hints at the anomalies wrecking Paul & Ignatius’ apocalyptic timeline: “Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing, for the known way is an impasse.”
princessekateri: Time is a game played beautifully by children.
~ Heraclitus
{As quoted in Fragments (2001) translated by Brooks Haxton}
SWotansson: This Brooks Haxton is a horrible translator who takes out of his arse meanings which are not on the original text. Herákleitos is clear as the midday, but the modern reader, who is ignorant, will not understand Him. The other books will be of extreme usefulness!
Orgetorix: Check out this book: "Fragments (Penguin Classics)" by Heraclitus, James Hillman, Brooks Haxton
Sebids: "And all the rest make no attempt.
They no more see
how they behave broad waking
than remember clearly
what they did asleep."
- Fragments - The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus, Translated by Brooks Haxton, With a foreword by James Hillman
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freaksgarde: sentence of the day 2
"Often, as in her poem "To the Golden Knight," the one who speaks can feel already, even in the moment of ecstasy, the loss implicit in such passion."
(Brooks Haxton, intro to My Blue Piano)
HeresYourHost: “Many who have learned / from Hesiod the countless names / of gods and monsters / never understand / that night and day are one.”
(Brooks Haxton translation)
SophiaCycles: Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune. Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.~Heraclitus, James Hillman, and Brooks Haxton, Fragments
SophiaCycles: Of all the words yet spoken, none comes quite as far as wisdom, which is the action of the mind beyond all things that may be said.~Heraclitus, James Hillman, and Brooks Haxton, Fragments
FranoisLachanc2: Hallmarks of a parlour game...
Pythagoras may well have been
the deepest in his learning of all men.
And still he claimed to recollect
details of former lives,
being in one a cucumber
and one time a sardine.
Brooks Haxton, trans. Fragments: the collected wisdom of Heraclitus
WenSmith00999: "Poem: A Cat Lover’s Guide to The Bell Curve" by BY BROOKS HAXTON AND REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS via NYT New York Times
VQR: On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. Brooks Haxton writes “wherever the moon is in the mind’s eye / comes a calm, for the sun explodes” in his poem from our Winter 1995 issue, linked here:
jennifergrotz1: What capacious intelligence and wonder, what a master of syntax and diction. Lordy, do yourself a favor and read Brooks Haxton’s new book!
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day seven years ago:
Fists I Thought Were Made To Hold the Reins by Brooks Haxton
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day seven years ago:
Fists I Thought Were Made To Hold the Reins by Brooks Haxton
samrat747: Thy Name by Brooks Haxton My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? I will declare thy name unto my brethren.… Psalm 102 OK. Let’s not call what ditched us God: ghu, the root in Sanskrit, means not God, but only the calling thereupon. Let’... -
samrat747: Unclean by Brooks Haxton I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop. Psalm 102 -
MichaelIgoe5: Brooks Haxton reading "A Cat Lover's Guide to The Bell Curve"
Emily_P_Knight: To Bald Eagle by Brooks Haxton
You were a good workhorse,
gentle for children to ride.
When I leaned forward on your neck
and whispered, I could feel it
that you understood me.
MattMinicucci: Heraclitus, fragment 67. Trans. by Brooks Haxton.
JohnKI7YRA: That which always was,
and is, and will be everlasting fire,
the same for all, the cosmos,
made neither by god nor man,
replenishes in measure
as it burns away.
Heraclitus
Translated by Brooks Haxton
JeffreyRothsch3: Paris Review - Three Poems: Brooks Haxton
rabihalameddine: God says, to the free mind, Find me.
-Brooks Haxton
I found you, Henri. I found you.
-Rabih Alameddine
Akirudu: Fragments, The collected wisdom of Heraclitus, translated by Brooks Haxton
mqr_tweets: listen to MQR Spring 2020 contributor Brooks Haxton read his poem, "Oceanic," on MQR Online today. We love hearing poems read by poets!
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day six years ago:
Fists I Thought Were Made To Hold the Reins by Brooks Haxton
SpencerHupp: else lasker-schüler (1869-1945)
(trans. brooks haxton)
a poet i love, who was first brought to me by another great and humane poet, eavan boland, who died today
uberladung: do NOT read my blue piano by else lasker-schüler translated by brooks haxton ISBN 978-0-8156-3420-1 it is singlehandedly ruining my life
JeffreyRothsch3: Paris Review - Horologe: Brooks Haxton (who I went to Beloit College with)
MattMinicucci: “Gods, like men, revere the boys who die for them in battle.”
-Heraclitus (trans. Brooks Haxton)
JeffreyRothsch3: Paris Review - An Interval of Five Tones, Being the Dominant: Brooks Haxton
rabihalameddine: Fists I Thought Were Made To Hold the Reins by Brooks Haxton
JeffreyRothsch3: Paris Review - Three Poems by Brooks Haxton
marykarrlit: ‘The ape other apes find beautiful/looks apish to non-apes.’ Brooks Haxton translation from thr Greek of (I think) Heraclitus
leadershipcraft: I really enjoyed Brooks Haxton's translation of the Fragments of Heraclitus. Most people reading Heraclitus are initially shocked at how short it is, but love the depth.
lilpemex: love saying, without you even less, as I felt my will jettisoned, a thing out in the street - brooks haxton
rabihalameddine: Fists I Thought Were Made To Hold the Reins by Brooks Haxton
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day five years ago:
Fists I Thought Were Made To Hold the Reins by Brooks Haxton
