“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
Thinking today of Toni Morrison's wisdom on the artist's task in times of catastrophe: https://t.co/nzo38uJehc
pal meñ jahāñ ko dekhte mere ḍubo chukā
ik vaqt meñ yih dīdah bhī t̤ūfān ro chukā
One blink, and I managed to drown the world.
There was a time these eyes could weep up a storm.
- Mir Taqi Mir (Divan-e Avval: 1.100.1)
For those who want to mine daily life for their art, a second job becomes an umbilical cord fastened to something vast and breathing. https://t.co/hM8B9oCk9A