Sens / Meaning Part IV

– And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? Here, the poet counters any questions, any challenges, or any repudiations, of his hopeful faith. "If there is no lining", if there is no...

Sens / Meaning Part III

The true meaning, ready to be decoded. What never added up will add Up, What was incomprehensible will be comprehended. "True" is a loaded word, one which has commanded both respect and derision, growth and decay, win and loss, eternity and despair. Pilate...

Sens / Meaning Part II

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. The poets expresses a boundless hope, one that exposes the ultimate duplicity of a passing world, one in which those how live on "this side" are confronting....

Reflection on Czeslaw Milosz' Poem "Sens / Meaning"

Polish-American Poet Czeslaw Milosz Meaning by Czeslaw Milosz When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. The true meaning, ready to be decoded. What never added up will add Up, What was incomprehensible will be...

Scribes of the Kingdom Part II

Returning to Matthew's verse (13: 52), Jesus says that every scribe instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a householder with great treasure. The Scriptures in their completeness will help us to open up this great, infinite, unsearchable wealth of treasure...