APOLARITY

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I dwell in Possibility—
A fairer House than Prose—
More numerous of Windows—
Superior—for Doors—

Of Chambers as the Cedars—
Impregnable of Eye—
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky—

Of Visitors—the fairest—
For Occupation—This—
The spreading wide of narrow Hands
To gather Paradise—

- Emily Dickinson

Below is a video of Bill Murray reading same, to a group of construction workers, during the construction of the new location for Poets House in lower Manhattan. I got a kick out of it. Enjoy.

I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to heaven
And put out the flames of hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.

- Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya, c.713-c.801 CE