Creativity

Advice from the Beatles (new episode) Human Voices Wake Us

Advice from William Wordsworth (new episode) Human Voices Wake Us

Advice from Charles Dickens & Alice Munro Human Voices Wake Us

Advice from Walt Whitman & W. B. Yeats Human Voices Wake Us

John Keats: "The poet has no identity" Human Voices Wake Us

The Voice of Toni Morrison Human Voices Wake Us

Ezra Pound’s Advice to a Young Poet Human Voices Wake Us

Van Gogh's Early Years Human Voices Wake Us

Van Gogh: Starry Nights & Sunflowers Human Voices Wake Us

Stephen King's Great Novel of Parenthood & Grief Human Voices Wake Us

Emily Dickinson Human Voices Wake Us

Advice from Seamus Heaney // James Joyce's "Araby" Human Voices Wake Us

Advice from Beethoven, Joseph Campbell, W. S. Merwin, W. D. Snodgrass Human Voices Wake Us

On Seamus Heaney (new episode) Human Voices Wake Us

Loneliness, pt2 // Shakespeare, Sex & Sonnets Human Voices Wake Us

On Seamus Heaney (new episode) Human Voices Wake Us

The Earliest Bookstores I Remember // Picasso's "Guernica" Human Voices Wake Us

Advice from Joan Didion, Stanley Kunitz, Billy Collins & Alice Munro Human Voices Wake Us

Seamus Heaney's Origin Story Human Voices Wake Us

How Did Picasso Do It? Human Voices Wake Us

An episode from 11/16/21: Tonight I read from a few books on Pablo Picasso, where he talks about how the power behind his own paintings, and his huge output, remained a mystery for him as much as anyone else. For most of the time, Picasso seems to have been along for the ride, and the lasting nature of his work seems to be less about how consciously he went about it, than how intuitively he was able to deal with an impulse he barely understood himself.

The first few quotations come from the huge Taschen book about Picasso that covers his entire life; the rest come from the multi-volume biography of Picasso by John Richardson:

Ted Hughes Responds to Fame Human Voices Wake Us

Ted Hughes's Origin Story Human Voices Wake Us

Beethoven on His Deathbed Human Voices Wake Us

Poetry & Education in Eighth Century England Human Voices Wake Us

The Poet Speaks: Flannery O'Connor, Jacques Barzun, Jean Guéhenno Human Voices Wake Us

Hart Crane to His Father Human Voices Wake Us

The Poet Speaks: Da Vinci, Aiken, Meredith Human Voices Wake Us

The Poet Speaks: Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Lowell, Larkin, Paz Human Voices Wake Us

Vermeer in Bosnia Human Voices Wake Us

Jung’s Great Dream Human Voices Wake Us