1. Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
Serious perspective in this piece. My favorite line, "this underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another". He also says, "Astronomy is a humbling experience." Yes Carl, I feel the same way.
2. Time for Choosing - Ronald Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpH5L8zCtSk
Some Cold War Era magnificence. Ronald had a way with words and a real knack for motivation. What a time to be alive.
3. Bhagavad Gita Quote - Oppenheimer
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/now-i-am-become-death-the-destroyer-of-worlds
The Hindu text, Bhagavad Gita is in and of itself a wise piece of literature, but I am captivated by Oppenheimer's choice of quote from the text. It gives me goosebumps every time, knowing the background of that great man.
4. Desiderata - Max Ehrmann
https://allpoetry.com/Desiderata---Words-for-Life
This is my creed. I live by this. My father gave it to me when I was 16 and I've memorized the entire thing. To me, it is the ultimate expression of "words to live by".
5. Soldier's Pledge - Ronald Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8y18YFH70
A fantastic story of a true American hero; even Reagan got emotional reading it. A must see for any patriotic American.
6. City on a Hill - Ronald Reagan
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=85199
The piece that in my opinion defines conservatism. It is timeless. It is quotable. It is correct.
7. Remember Your Dream - Joel Osteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31rj-bZ7dA
Traditionally I don't listen to Joel that often but this is an incredible sermon about living the life you were meant to live. Highly inspirational and highly relevant.
8. If You Forget Me - Pablo Neruda
https://allpoetry.com/If-You-Forget-Me
When I read this for the first time it was very relevant in my life. I think that's why I go back to it time and time again. The words resonate with me and I think they can with many people. After reading more of Neruda's work, it's apparent that he had a real understanding of human emotion.
9. The Laughing Heart - Charles Budkowski
http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/11/the-laughing-he.html
A masterpiece by my favorite poet. He appears somewhat angry in this piece with a very apparent resolution towards the end. All his work is so thought provoking and yet so simple for the mind to wrap around.
10. Roll the Dice - Charles Budkowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36CYMdFmDeQ
One of my favorite pieces of inspiration. Budkowski speaks through you in this poem. He speaks to your sense of endurance for life. I simply love it.
11. If - Rudyard Kipling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEFMVIfl2UY
A contender for my favorite poem of all time. Another masterpiece by a true master. Like the title, not much needs to be said about this poem. Just read.
12. So Now? - Charles Budkowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4GZuig-10
A rather dark poem but it hits deep. Another poem I discovered, or rather sought after, in a time when it was pertinent to my state of mind. I've found that when I am confronted with genuine confusion about life and my expectations for it, I am most susceptible to connecting with poetry.
13. Do Not Go Gentle - Dylan Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESWzPhZWYeI
The very famous and masterful poem that appears in my favorite movie of all time. Upon listening to this out of context of the movie, I discovered how much I truly appreciate this work of art.
14. Seven in the Woods - Jim Harrison
https://hemmingplay.com/2016/04/05/seven-in-the-woods/
Discovered in an Anthony Bourdain episode to Montana, I've found this poem to be something I return to time and time again. Maybe because the author himself is vastly interesting, or maybe because the poem, in it's concise form, invokes so many thoughts to one's sense of belonging.
15. Love after Love - Derek Walcott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z850LNbudlw
"You shall greet yourself at the door"; boy did I learn this one. Being alone is a gift and a curse but one thing is for sure; when the phone is quiet, the day is long, and the night is solo, you will indeed become your own welcoming party. Profound to say the least.
16. Sonnet 19, Devouring Time - Shakespeare
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45088/sonnet-19-devouring-time-blunt-thou-the-lions-paws
In typicall Shakespearean fashion, the diction of this short work of art is sure to blow the doors off of your expectations of what words can provide when it comes to depth. His message in this sonnet isn't complicated, the syntax and word choice sure are, but once you obtain his point, its one you read over and over again.
17. The Most Astounding Fact - Neil Degrasse Tyson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU&t=143s
Neil Degrasse Tyson changed my life. Not only is he one of the most charismatic and positive individuals alive, but he is enviously competent when it comes to making the complex, simple. I wasn't alive to watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos but I hang on each word that comes from Tyson's rendition of the beautiful, enlightening, and fulfilling masterpiece of unimaginable nonfiction.
Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
Serious perspective in this piece. My favorite line, "this underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another". He also says, "Astronomy is a humbling experience." Yes Carl, I feel the same way.
2. Time for Choosing - Ronald Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpH5L8zCtSk
Some Cold War Era magnificence. Ronald had a way with words and a real knack for motivation. What a time to be alive.
3. Bhagavad Gita Quote - Oppenheimer
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/now-i-am-become-death-the-destroyer-of-worlds
The Hindu text, Bhagavad Gita is in and of itself a wise piece of literature, but I am captivated by Oppenheimer's choice of quote from the text. It gives me goosebumps every time, knowing the background of that great man.
4. Desiderata - Max Ehrmann
https://allpoetry.com/Desiderata---Words-for-Life
This is my creed. I live by this. My father gave it to me when I was 16 and I've memorized the entire thing. To me, it is the ultimate expression of "words to live by".
5. Soldier's Pledge - Ronald Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8y18YFH70
A fantastic story of a true American hero; even Reagan got emotional reading it. A must see for any patriotic American.
6. City on a Hill - Ronald Reagan
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=85199
The piece that in my opinion defines conservatism. It is timeless. It is quotable. It is correct.
7. Remember Your Dream - Joel Osteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31rj-bZ7dA
Traditionally I don't listen to Joel that often but this is an incredible sermon about living the life you were meant to live. Highly inspirational and highly relevant.
8. If You Forget Me - Pablo Neruda
https://allpoetry.com/If-You-Forget-Me
When I read this for the first time it was very relevant in my life. I think that's why I go back to it time and time again. The words resonate with me and I think they can with many people. After reading more of Neruda's work, it's apparent that he had a real understanding of human emotion.
9. The Laughing Heart - Charles Budkowski
http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/11/the-laughing-he.html
A masterpiece by my favorite poet. He appears somewhat angry in this piece with a very apparent resolution towards the end. All his work is so thought provoking and yet so simple for the mind to wrap around.
10. Roll the Dice - Charles Budkowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36CYMdFmDeQ
One of my favorite pieces of inspiration. Budkowski speaks through you in this poem. He speaks to your sense of endurance for life. I simply love it.
11. If - Rudyard Kipling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEFMVIfl2UY
A contender for my favorite poem of all time. Another masterpiece by a true master. Like the title, not much needs to be said about this poem. Just read.
12. So Now? - Charles Budkowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4GZuig-10
A rather dark poem but it hits deep. Another poem I discovered, or rather sought after, in a time when it was pertinent to my state of mind. I've found that when I am confronted with genuine confusion about life and my expectations for it, I am most susceptible to connecting with poetry.
13. Do Not Go Gentle - Dylan Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESWzPhZWYeI
The very famous and masterful poem that appears in my favorite movie of all time. Upon listening to this out of context of the movie, I discovered how much I truly appreciate this work of art.
14. Seven in the Woods - Jim Harrison
https://hemmingplay.com/2016/04/05/seven-in-the-woods/
Discovered in an Anthony Bourdain episode to Montana, I've found this poem to be something I return to time and time again. Maybe because the author himself is vastly interesting, or maybe because the poem, in it's concise form, invokes so many thoughts to one's sense of belonging.
15. Love after Love - Derek Walcott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z850LNbudlw
"You shall greet yourself at the door"; boy did I learn this one. Being alone is a gift and a curse but one thing is for sure; when the phone is quiet, the day is long, and the night is solo, you will indeed become your own welcoming party. Profound to say the least.
16. Sonnet 19, Devouring Time - Shakespeare
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45088/sonnet-19-devouring-time-blunt-thou-the-lions-paws
In typicall Shakespearean fashion, the diction of this short work of art is sure to blow the doors off of your expectations of what words can provide when it comes to depth. His message in this sonnet isn't complicated, the syntax and word choice sure are, but once you obtain his point, its one you read over and over again.
17. The Most Astounding Fact - Neil Degrasse Tyson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU&t=143s
Neil Degrasse Tyson changed my life. Not only is he one of the most charismatic and positive individuals alive, but he is enviously competent when it comes to making the complex, simple. I wasn't alive to watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos but I hang on each word that comes from Tyson's rendition of the beautiful, enlightening, and fulfilling masterpiece of unimaginable nonfiction.
Q
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