Bruno Manser Fonds
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updated 2001-05-25
Documentation "Totem for Bruno Manser"
Text for Bruno
By Linda Shayne
BRUNO - I have faith that your spirit is flying high above us - with the peoples that you love and helped for so long.
These words by the poet Stanley Kunitz - make me think of you.
Years ago I came to the realization that the most poignant of all lyric tensions stems from the awareness that we are living and dying at once. To embrace such knowledge and yet to remain compassionate and whole - that is the consummation of the endeavor of art. At the core of one's existence is a pool of energy that has nothing to do with personal identity, but that falls away from self, blends into the natural universe. Man has only a bit part to play in the whole marvelous show of creation. Poems would be easy if our heads weren't so full of the day's clatter. The task is to get through to the other side, where we can hear the deep rhythms that connect us with the stars and the tides.- We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.----- I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
Love and hugs, Linda Shayne May 21st, 2001