Category Archives: Poets vs philosophers

Through a Glass Darkly

Posted on November 22, 2014 by cwny

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. There they are unguarded. Above all, good men do not suspect that their destruction is attempted through their virtues. This their enemies are perfectly aware of: … Continue reading →

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The Return to Our Blood Faith

Posted on April 26, 2014 by cwny

“Speculation performs the feat of understanding all Christianity, but, please note, it does not understand it Christianly but speculatively, which is precisely the misunderstanding, since Christianity is the very opposite of speculation.” – Soren Kierkegaard _____ “It is only the … Continue reading →

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The Lay of the European Minstrel

Posted on April 12, 2014 by cwny

Hush’d is the harp: the Minstrel gone.And did he wander forth alone?Alone, in indigence and age,To linger out his pilgrimage?No; close beneath proud Newark’s tower,Arose the Minstrel’s lowly bower;A simple hut; but there was seenThe little garden hedged with green,The … Continue reading →

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On Scott’s Birthday

Posted on August 4, 2012 by cwny

Canto Sixth Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on … Continue reading →

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In the Sight of God

Posted on May 26, 2012 by cwny

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceiv’d with ornament. – Merchant of Venice __________ All European revolutions and counter-revolutions are started and sustained by people who think that all of their actions on behalf … Continue reading →

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The Return

Posted on April 28, 2012 by cwny

Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air…” — The Wind in the Willows __________ Donald Davidson lived long enough to be condemned by his fellow Southerners and Northern liberals as a … Continue reading →

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