zaterdag 19 april 2014

April: Parker

Dorothy Parker klaagt over April: “Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants". 

Doet de Lente iets met ons? 
Stephen Rosen (auteur van Weathering: How the Atmosphere Conditions Your Body, Your Mind, Your Moods — and Your Health) schrijft op een blog:
 If the physicians measure spring fever but do not understand it, then it is poets who — without measuring — comprehend our “inner weather” and spring fever. “I am what is around me,” wrote the poet Wallace Stevens. When Byron said, “I am always most religious on a sunshiny day,” he was referring to atmospheric intimacy. Shakespeare was acutely aware of “tides in the affairs of men” — possibly atmospheric tides — or what he called “skyey influences that importuned our creaturehood.” Weather-sensitivity.
    These poets’ subco
nscious was so closely interwoven with their organic world, with their environment — emotional, physical, even thermal — that they became clearly conscious of it. They are called geniuses. And to the extent that we participate in spring fever, we experience a glimpse of our own genius. 
Tja.



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