A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors
Antonio Porchia (Voces, 1943; translated)

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

collection of film inspired by poetry

Suggested collection for a weekend film blitz.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5709

Among the list is the scene suggested from Four Weddings and a Funeral -  Although only one scene contains poetry, the recitation of "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden is one of the film's most memorable moments. A moving elegy to a dead lover, the poem begins "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" and can be found in Auden's Collected Poems.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

love in the world

Short clip inspired by the movie Love Actually (2003): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkjyRU3dLXU

My fondest memories of family are arriving/leaving airports because of the love I carry within, there and back.