A Child is Born

MATTHEW KUDELKA

For a long time now our civilization has been driving, with tortured intensity growing from decade to decade, as if towards a catastrophe; restlessly,
violently, tempestuously … Where we live, soon nobody will be able to exist. –
Friedrich Nietzsche

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.
Antonio Gramsci

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself.
José Ortega y Gasset

For the beautiful is right at the margin of the terrifying, which we can only just endure.
Rainer Maria Rilke

For when the power of thought
is coupled with ill will and naked force
there is no refuge from it for mankind.
Inferno XXXI, 55-57

In Memory of Rose Kudelka