Siris

 It is not reasonable to refuse to undertake any honourable task or activity, or to lay it aside once undertaken, in order to avoid trouble....

Modern Elfland by G. K. Chesterton   I cut a staff in a churchyard copse, I clad myself in ragged things, I set a feather in my cap That fel...

On the Transfiguration of Our Lord by Laurent Drelincourt Great God! Am I on Earth, or am I in the Skies? My heart is transported by a pleas...

 With all these arts and pursuits of practical life, the intellectual business of thinking -- of such thinking at least as is common to most...

 * Francesco Pierini, Inner speech and the phenomenology of poetry (PDF) * Duncan Richter, Some Remarks of Anscombe's on Faith and Just...

 My last Doctors of the Church post was in 2022, shortly after the addition of St. Irenaeus of Lyons, but is now obsolete, since onJuly 31 o...

 August by Lizette Woodworth Reese   No wind, no bird. The river flames like brass. On either side, smitten as with a spell Of silence, broo...