5 thoughts on “Reading without leaking light”

  1. Actually place of a reading book, always being interesting for me. One of my teachers told me that you should read in a chair, not in comfortable place… especially during reading philosophical books. You should be awake… Goes on, I love to read poetry in front of my windows…. with the Sun… At night before sleeping, my head on my pilow I read all other kind books, and usually I fall in sleep… But I go on next night to read it from the last page I left… Something Like that… Your photograph made me to write this. Thank you dear Veselin, Love, nia

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  2. Ah, you said “Poetry”, “What does poetry give me?”…. Dear Smiling Young Man, where to I start I don’t know. But I have many lighthouses for these endless poetry sea. First of all, I should talk about poetry. I think poetry represents the human soul in its purest form. There are things in your mind, but mostly they are things deep inside you that you cannot express with a normal spoken language… Just like notes in music, words dancing in your soul, in your heart, in your mind… it has a rhythm, a melody that is expressed with words. I suggest you read Ursula K. Le Guin’s book “Conversation on Writing” by David Naimon. There is a diaologue that I love so much, Ursula: “This is more deeper meaning that where the poetry approaches to music.” She goes on to explain, “Because you can’t explain this meaning into the words. But it is just there and you know it is there. What carries it, is rhythm and tempo, the music of sound. It is almost a mysterious.” “You can feel what poet feel in his/her poetical voice into the lines.”

    Poetry actually always finds a way to catch us… Because it is almost all about life, life events… Where the feelings hit,… what we live or live, what we experience or experienced… like to fall in love, like a death, like a born,… what affects us. Even though poetry has a a mythological aspect, as Ursula K. Le Guin says, ““And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth.” Poerty is life… It is both behind the scenes of the stage of life and the stage where it greets the audience. “Poetry encourages us to put words to feelings that we can’t otherwise describe,” Wytovich said. “It allows us to communicate our fears and passions and joys and memories in a way that preserves them, honors them and lets other people interact and share in those moments, too.”

    If we come to me, poetry and philosophy working both for me in the depth of thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, it relieves my pain, sometimes it illuminates my darkness, sometimes it reminds me that I am human. It strengthens my being like a prayer book. Along with all the other books, it prevents my soul from drying up in the deserts on my own journey. It is a light, a sound, a companion in a dark night. It reawakens me like an old monk who knows the meaning of my feelings. What more can I say… Without poetry life can’t be same for human world. It is one of the most important features that make us human… That’s why poets are valuable…That’s why politicians don’t like poets.. Good Evenin dear Veselin, I talked too much, sorry. Love, nia

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      1. Thank you dear Veselin, and I am so glad to hear your thought about Ursula Le Guin, amazing writer and I read always, even again and again. There is always something to hit. Have a nice evening and weekend, Love, nia

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