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trodgneiss: Mention in the article, too, of Witter Bynner who had some prominence at the time in the emerging field of Sinology. Came across a three volume set of his works and translations at a book shop the other day. They were a tad pricey but I might thumb through them next time I visit.

PoemsNature70: At the Touch of You "At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me." Witter Bynner

NMHumanitiesBot: Route 66 got routed through Albuquerque instead of Santa Fe as retaliation against Witter Bynner and Spud Johnson

armanwalker: Countee Cullen After high school, attended New York University. In 1923, Cullen won 2nd prize in the Witter Bynner National Competitions for Undergraduate Poetry, sponsored by the Poetry Society of America, for his book of poems titled "The Ballad of the Brown Girl".

chicken_or_egg3: (3)No sympathy, no sense Just a Wall Street willingness And moral impotence Is what our estimables choose As proper for the young No flesh and bone, no heart and soul But dishwater and dung. --Witter Bynner

rajoyceUCB: The future ended With the stroke of midnight which ushered this day And so the past began —Witter Bynner

rk70534: HIEKAT Witter Bynner(1881-1968)

LeinoPaul: Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute. Witter Bynner

beckybradway: Thought I'd share this appropriate little poem by Witter Bynner from 1914. Don't know why.

Orwell_Future: At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. From: At the Touch of You, by Witter Bynner

WickedNaughtyDi: thelightkeepersjournal: “Caressing Reassures Lovers That Their Love Endures.” — Witter Bynner

TheLight_Keeper: “Caressing Reassures Lovers That Their Love Endures.” - Witter Bynner

LillyLi48: There’s a solitude in seeing you. ~Witter Bynner

brackmag: anyway, happy late birthday to witter bynner

BeineckeLibrary: In Memoriam 2567: The Household on the Hill / by Witter Bynner.

suavechishty: I am a miser of my memories of you, and I will not spend them. Witter Bynner

SimonTPetherick: "Immaculately conceived by a shooting-star, carried in his mother's womb for 62 years and born, it is said, white-haired, in 604 BC." From Witter Bynner's introduction to his 1946 translation of the Tao.

VedantJ9: Literally any line from The Jade Mountain trans Witter Bynner

newsmutproject: At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me. - Witter Bynner

Michael_Begnal: I wrote this a few years ago, about Witter Bynner's modernist, long poem 'The New World' (1915), an attempt at a democratic ethos for the early 20th-c. --

WomanToday2: Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, 1995 and 2002 University of Mary Washington Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 2003 Erskine J. Poetry Prize, 2004 for "Second Bearing, 1919" Witter Bynner Fellowship from Library of Congress, 2005 12/

SubtleTornado: “At the Touch of You” by Witter Bynner At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me.

NMMagazine: Innkeeper Dan Clark shares what it means to become caretaker of the onetime home of poet and essayist Witter Bynner.

PikeJC: At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me. (what an eloquent description of bust by Witter Bynner)

TheLight_Keeper: “Caressing Reassures Lovers That Their Love Endures.” - Witter Bynner

chenthil_nathan: "Leaning alone in the close bamboos, I am playing my lute and humming a song Too softly for anyone to hear — Except my comrade, the bright moon." Wang Wei, Tang dynasty poet. Translated by Witter Bynner

TheLight_Keeper: “Caressing Reassures Lovers That Their Love Endures.” - Witter Bynner

donscardino: Lao Tzu, translated by the Dutch poet, Witter Bynner.

nikoliclark: Witter Bynner, American poet

Burrisbroadcast: Countee Cullen was an award winning poet. He won the Witter Bynner Poetry prize in 1925 and Harmon Foundation Literary Award in 1927. He was a critically acclaimed poet and a successful writer.

tracepeterson: It was lovely & fun to attend two classes today as a visiting poet, one right after the other, which is how scheduling worked out. Ruth Lepson's course at New England Conservatory of Music, then Stephen Whitaker's poetry course funded by a Witter Bynner grant. Great students!

NMMagazine: "Witter Bynner created this rambling adobe villa in the Pueblo Revival style in the 1920s from a core of rooms that date to the early 1800s," says David Solem, owner of the Inn of the Turquoise Bear. "He had a respect for authenticity and craftsmanship."

POETSorg: There is a solitude in seeing you, Followed by your company when you are gone. You are like heaven’s veils of lightning. I cannot see till afterward How beautiful you are. —Witter Bynner

NMMagazine: Innkeeper Dan Clark shares what it means to become caretaker of the onetime home of poet and essayist Witter Bynner.

parisreview: Listen to Charif Shanahan read an excerpt from his poem “Present Moment” in issue no. 238 (Winter 2021). Poetry audiograms made with the support of the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Art by Lorenzo Gritti. More:

ForgottenGPoems: Here's "Noon on Alameda Street," by Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987), taken from the posthumous (and oddly titled) Poems: Collected and Selected (1988). Flanner was a student of Witter Bynner in the early '20s.

POETSorg: Fools, fools, fools, Your blood is hot to-day. It cools When you are clay. —Witter Bynner

SScottWhitaker: Creative Writing students listening to Pulitzer Prize finalist Jos Charles discussing childhood, using text speech and Twitter speak in poems. Funded by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry

SScottWhitaker: Jos Charles graciously answered questions about editing, writing, her experience as a child and student, and her experience and challenges writing Feeld. Students were also treated to a reading of A Year, out in March. Funded from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

markscroggins: Today: Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (trans Witter Bynner)

AutographsColl2: GEORGE ABBE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/25/1958 CO-SIGNED BY: WITTER BYNNER

Rte7bx1135: "Thus everywhere men yearn to be misled by magicians." - Witter Bynner

mkimdorman: (evening note 2) from wonder to wonder existence opens core, surface the same from wonder to wonder existence opens -after Lao Tzu (found in the back of an old notebook - I wonder what version I was reading at the time - maybe Witter Bynner?)

EllaErayo: At the Touch of You Witter Bynner - 1881-1968 At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me.

GkhanYa22646543: D.H. Lawrence Santa Fe, New Mexico Photographer: Witter Bynner 1922

shawnshaneleif: The Way Of Life, Dao de Jing, Tao Te Ching, tranlater Witter Bynner. 71. A man who knows how little he knows is well, A man who knows how much he knows is sick, If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.

steffiore: The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. -Witter Bynner

LshipAcademy: “The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.” - Witter Bynner

bibianebio: "Existence... parent of the Universe, ..." The Tao Te Ching - Laotzu (The Witter Bynner version)

nau_calevents: TONIGHT AT 7PM! Writer Jamie Figueroa, presented by the MFA in Creative Writing program as a part of the Witter-Bynner Indigenous Writers Series. Join us in Liberal Arts Building room 120 or streaming online:

igedla_lomndau: How can a man’s life keep its course If he will not let it flow? Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair. Witter Bynner

nau_calevents: This Thursday at 7pm, the MFA in Creative Writing Program presents Jamie Figueroa, author of the critically acclaimed novel “Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer” as a part of the Witter-Bynner Indigenous Writers Series. LA room 120 & streaming:

anu_china: — Chang Chiu-ling (Zhang Jiuling), "Looking at the Moon and Thinking of One Far Away". Translated by Witter Bynner (1881–1968). in The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology: Being Three Hundred Poems of the T'ang Dynasty 618–906, p. 66.

BeineckeLibrary: In Memoriam 2567: The Household on the Hill / by Witter Bynner.

ARTSalamode: Born 8/10: painter William Hartnett, writers Jorge Amado, Lawrence Binyon, Witter Bynner, jazz sax Arnett Cobb "Wild Man of Tenor Sax," piano Claude Thornhill, drums James Charles "J.C." Heard, singer/songwriters Bobby Hatfield, Ronnie Spector, Ian Anderson, Patti Austin.

ARTSalamode: "The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small." Witter Bynner

NYPLphotobot: Bynner, Witter

Seductive_Jyo: “At The Touch Of You” At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me. - Witter Bynner

KerneOstrali: "How can there be such men as these who never hunger, never thirst, yet eat and drink until they burst! There are brigands but these are the worst, of all the highways harms" Lao Tsu (Witter Bynner tr; 1944)

Birdie75742012: Poem by Witter Bynner Art by Ewa Hauton

AmneMachin: witter bynner calling amy lowell a "hippopoetess" is an insult very nearly—but not quite, not quite—as savage as emerson calling poe "the jingle man"

jcolag: I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them. Witter Bynner

Michael_Begnal: I'm reminded that my article on the Spectra poets came out 3 yrs ago:

Bookish_Eric: Arthur didn’t care for the Imagists, preferring more traditional forms of poetry. So, in 1916, Arthur and Witter Bynner published a volume of hoax Imagist poetry under pseudonyms—a joke. Even the mimeograph-esque cover recalls avant-garde poets’ publications of the time 5/6

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hargreyves: sauce: At the Touch of You by Witter Bynner

UncleMeag: I don’t think any one form of art is better than the other but this definitely made me proud to be a poet ❤️Via “the Jade Mountain” by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-Hu

Rte7bx1135: “Everywhere men yearn to be misled by magicians.” – Witter Bynner

CitraoRiego: The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small ~ Witter Bynner ~

PlainJane_69: At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. -Witter Bynner

ThePoetryCabin: Spectra: The Poetry Movement That Was All a Hoax In 1916 “the poets Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke invented the Spectra movement as an attempt to ‘debunk the authority of’ various styles of modern poetry, explains historian Audrey Russek.

HEllisaurusRex: "Defeat" by Witter Bynner, WWII: 'On a train in Texas German Prisoners eat/ With white American soliders, seat by seat,/ While black American soldiers sit apart,/ The white men eating meat, the black men heart." (1/2)

TheSergMonster: “At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me.” Witter Bynner - 1881-1968

nau_calevents: Thursday at 7:00, join the NAU Department of English for Readings by Sherwin Bitsui, Tyler Mitchell and tanner menard, a part of the Witter Bynner Indigenous Writers Poetry Series.

BeineckeLibrary: Ettie Stettheimer, Carl Van Vechten, James Weldon Johnson, Fania Marinoff, Witter Bynner, Grace Nail Johnson, Blanche Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., on June 17, 1931, in a photograph by Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. CVV, JWJ, and AAK Jr. all had June 17 birthdays

nau_calevents: Thursday the 25th, join the NAU Department of English for Readings by Sherwin Bitsui, Tyler Mitchell and tanner menard, a part of the Witter Bynner Indigenous Writers Poetry Series. Zoom details here:

nau_calevents: Another new event, join the Department of English on March 25 for poetry readings by Sherwin Bitsui, Tyler Mitchell and tanner menard. The event is part of the Witter Bynner Indigenous Writers Poetry Series. Info on how to attend at:

queermarch: He received many awards and honors including but not limited to, the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spingarn Medal awarded by the NAACP.

Italian_in_CY: At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me. By Witter Bynner

yourprettywords: “War,” Witter Bynner - Fools, fools, fools, Your blood is hot to-day.          It cools When you are clay. It joins the very clod Wherein you look at God, Wherein at last you see          The living God          The loving God, Which was your...

Sammer1944: From "Opus 6" by Emanuel Morgan: If I were only dafter I might be making hymns To the liquor of your laughter And the lacquer of your limbs. Emanuel Morgan is really Witter Bynner, the poet. In 1916 he wrote "Opus 6" as a satire. The book became his most praised. (Oops)

DoinaBadescu: PETALS OF THOUGHTS: WITTER BYNNER - Poems and short biography

jideokesola: "The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small." ~Witter Bynner

KittTwyla: "... The pick of words that tell the truth, The even tenor of a well-run state, The fair profit of able dealing, The right timing of useful deeds, And for blocking no one's way No one blames him." -The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Witter Bynner version)

Swarthyface: or, in Witter Bynner's translation: "Listening to Monk Jun of Shu Play a Qin": The Sichuan monk carrying his luqi/ Came from the west,down Emei Peak./ As soon as he began playing for me / It was like listening to pines of 10,000 valleys, /With the guest's heart being cleansed...

ImSensualis: New post on Ko-fi!

BlkLibraryGirl: Y’all ever been in the Capitol building? I have. In 2014 I went to visit Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), my congressman, when I was awarded the Witter Bynner Fellowship. That Capitol building is a maze. So I have to ask: how’d those terrorists so easily find Nancy Pelosi’s office?

POETSorg: But I have felt a pulse-beat start Because a robin, spending The utmost of his simple art Some of his pleasure to impart While twilight came descending, Has found an answer in my heart, A sudden comprehending. —Witter Bynner

WomanToday2: ...Witter Bynner Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize. 12/

LeinoPaul: “Existence is beyond the power of words to define. Words may be used but none of them are absolute. Witter Bynner The Way of Life, According to Laotzu

WBateman95: I had to share this photo of D H Lawrence, Witter Bynner and Frieda Lawrence; it is so full of life and personality.

lightbereft: from william marion reedy's preface to the beloved stranger by witter bynner

lightbereft: “you are the wandering spirit of the most beloved place — / and yet you are a joy not there begun / nor anywhere, but always about to be, / the invisible succeeding crest / that follows from the open sea / and shall be loveliest.” from 'the wave', witter bynner

serene_she: At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me. Witter Bynner

mkimdorman: Laotzu [knew] how to keep the root of democracy clean. "Conduct your triumph as a funeral." -Witter Bynner

EldritchOneesan: ♈️ Source Pulse by Ratana Satis. “AT THE TOUCH OF YOU” BY WITTER BYNNER

aslisureyya: There is a solitude in seeing you, Followed by your company when you are gone. You are like heaven's veins of lightning. I cannot see till afterward How beautiful you are. There is a blindness in seeing you, Followed by the sight of you when you are gone. Witter Bynner

Powell_DA: At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me. --Witter Bynner

MehdiMM: The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. ~ Witter Bynner

bernardtjoy: I left home young. I return old; Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin; And my children, meeting me, do not know me. They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?" —He Zhizhang (Witter Bynner, trans.), 'Coming Home' *** Image: Luo Zhongli, Father (1980)



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