<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Livros Eletrônicos de Ana Paula Arendt]]></title><description><![CDATA[ana-paula-arendt]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:02:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/en/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[A Fight for Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear readers,  Today’s inspiration is something epic, grotesque, comic, and sublime. Philosophers would rise from the past, only to strike with the right theory the wrong person. Enjoy the read and have fun!  With love, Ana Paula Arendt A Fight for Love Ana Paula Arendt All the philosophers and wise men gathered together to try to make me stop loving you. At last! A legendary battle! Simone Weil¹, kindly precise, struck the first blow, declaring attention the purest form of human action. She...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/a-fight-for-love</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a888606700eb2025e8e2c44</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:25:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_898253ced3b142a98edaa2e64c343d0c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domesticated flowers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Domesticated flowers Ana Paula Arendt A single gesture may be born of impulse; repeated through the years, it learns to stay. A faithfulness that does not seek to compulse, and keeps, through time, its own devoted way. I carry on, not for what result it may ensue, but because silence does not govern what I do. Perhaps these flowers I give are not a question to which you should simply make reply; perhaps they were a sentence, whole and clear, complete beneath the silence of your sky. Still...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/domesticated-flowers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a882d3ba3a37621790b7e1f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:51:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_0e5c16946afd440780396cc3a5d78790~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to you]]></title><description><![CDATA[The road to you Ana Paula Arendt Time we have left will run out but your soul will endure in my heart, though… There’s a long road to walk now but I’ll reach all the shores that I search! And if the night should fall upon me, and if the road should lose its way, I will carry your love within me, a light until the end of my days. There are mountains yet before me, there are rivers I must cross… The path may lead through sorrow, but I will not yet fear the loss. For the time we have will run...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/the-road-to-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8343006f644c8dfb461aa7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:23:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_12661f6e2ab94937bcdc64d2e2566e0e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry and education]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear Readers and Friends, I am very much grateful for the invitation to attend the Poetry Day, in honour of Eunice de Souza, as a Chief Guest, organized by the English Department of the St. Xavier College in Mumbai, one of the most prestigious institutions in India, founded by the Jesuits in 1869. It is also said to be the Indian "Hogwarts", for its stairs, and outstanding architecture. Professor Rashmi, Stuti, and Prasita are enthusiastic of the value of Poetry and Literature in our way to...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/poetry-and-education</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6ef6323e0c16484ff7f8ad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:23:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_3184c519eeed4eb7ad3975489dada6eb~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_952,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excommunication: an Inquiry]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Inquiry into Authority and the Exercise of Power in the Catholic Church Against Excommunication Ana Paula Arendt* 	To my readers: what do I think about the excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)? Since I have not formed an opinion about that organization, it would be very easy simply to read the decision of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and follow what the authorities say. Yet the easiest path is not always the safest one when it comes to forming one's own...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/excommunication-an-inquiry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4fdb43cb673b1177c68622</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:27:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_8b2e1e4e00da418c84266e2bb5f97d24~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excomunhão: Um Estudo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uma investigação sobre autoridade e uso do poder na Igreja Católica Contra a excomunhão Ana Paula Arendt* 	Aos meus leitores, o que eu opino sobre a excomunhão da Fraternidade Pio X? Como eu não tenho opinião formada sobre essa organização, seria muito fácil simplesmente ler a decisão do Dicastério para a Doutrina da Fé e seguir o que dizem as autoridades. Mas nem sempre o caminho mais fácil é o mais seguro para formar a própria opinião. Mesmo dentro da Igreja, de um Estado teocrático, no...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/excomunh%C3%A3o-uma-investiga%C3%A7%C3%A3o-sobre-autoridade-e-uso-do-poder-na-igreja-cat%C3%B3lica</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4fd9e85c421b8202177665</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:32:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_8b2e1e4e00da418c84266e2bb5f97d24~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among Prisons and Forests, a pearl]]></title><description><![CDATA[Margarida Patriota is a Brazilian writer, translator, and literary critic. A member of the Brasília Academy of Letters, she lived in several countries during her childhood and youth, an experience that shaped the cosmopolitan character of her work. She has also been active in cultural outreach and has, for many years, hosted the radio program Authors and Books (Autores e Livros) on Rádio Senado. Holding both a Master's and a Ph.D. in French Literature, she taught Literary Theory, Brazilian...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/among-prisons-and-forests-a-pearl</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1ad804517617e390adc3fd</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 12:29:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_695f61d36d0d43e2a16869e489d5ee24~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[entre cárceres e bosques, uma pérola]]></title><description><![CDATA[Margarida Patriota é escritora, tradutora e crítica literária brasileira. Membro da Academia Brasiliense de Letras, viveu em diversos países durante a infância e juventude, experiência que marcou o caráter cosmopolita de sua obra. Atuou também na difusão cultural e apresenta, desde há muitos anos, o programa Autores e Livros, da Rádio Senado. Mestre e doutora em Literatura Francesa, lecionou por 28 anos Teoria da Literatura, Literatura Brasileira e Literatura Francesa no Departamento de...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/entre-c%C3%A1rceres-e-bosques-uma-p%C3%A9rola</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a157c5ad681fe01d16ab690</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 11:00:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_6e68841d9f4d4bb9b68c9def5cca4806~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the people]]></title><description><![CDATA[To my dear readers and friends, a long poem in 7 Chants, paying homage to the Freedom Fighters, those people who worked to achieve the independence of India. Also a declaration of love, and the last poem in the Pink Book of Passion. Bharat: how the Indians call India, a country that is the unity of a common conscience, a civilization. I hope you enjoy it! With love and care, Ana Paula Arendt Delivered to the people (To Sarojini Naidu and her readers) I   Freedom fighters¹, they say sowing...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/to-the-people</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a09ba3e2fd8b3b69693a721</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:12:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_294dc62a880442e18e49030f1cf783df~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_853,h_833,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gopuram]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gopuram* Ana Paula Arendt A gateway to heaven amidst the confusion of the world, heaven: a clean, sacred space where shoes are left behind. Heaven: where prayers are heard with compassion and reverence. This gateway is pure bliss: a vertical mountain covered with the legends of those who fought for justice and light. Ladder, stairway of sight, all three eyes scaling the higher grounds of the soul… From muladhara, a generous base, foundation of flesh and loins receiving and giving life in...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/gopuram</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a03f54548aeb3fcb24192c3</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 03:54:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_a0c37fd805a04b23bd8f53b24dad82e6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chennai’s old trees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image: Chennai in the 19th Century, by the photographers E. F. H. Wiele and Theodore Klein, official photographers to the Governor of Madras (renamed as the state of Tamil Nadu, in 1969, after the fall of the British Raj). The pictures were rescued by Harry Miller in the 1970s, Director of Photography of The Indian Express, with the help of Eric Stracey, Inspector General of Police. Desikan Krishnan, of The Hindu newspaper, named them “Vintage Vignettes” as a collection. Chennai’s old trees...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/chennai-s-old-trees</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a00cd37ecab901137573a3c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 18:35:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_ad6acaa223b244de903b85d6c6ebedc4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_975,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besant nagar]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pink Sun Ana Paula Arendt   I dwell upon a hidden road.   I discovered where the Sun is born where it keeps all pink things hidden, the instant that never passes, unveiling the world with its radiance.   In the East, above the Indian Ocean, in Besan Nagar* the pink dawn of a limpid, tepid, liquid daybreak, suffusing fleeting minutes that do not wait, of people who are never done with passing, of people who are never done with yearning. Of Sun, never done with flashing, of a wet Sun,...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/besant-nagar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a008e3f0cf45a42cca80727</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 14:16:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_d0db5013b7a64cb794780562fdb778b5~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecstasy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ecstasy Ana Paula Arendt   God once said to Saint Teresa d’Avila that His favourite deed and her highest achievement in love, was simply this: taring at the little bricks mortared into the wall while she was uninspired in her adoration.   Not her deepest insights, not her bravest words, not her most sincere emotions.   Just the counting of the little bricks bowed and bothered when she could not pray anymore.   I could never understand the substance of that incomparable joy in God’s feelings,...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/ecstasy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a00691ab1ac8cd94fa614dc</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:25:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_3e336d5edf8c458d8690ef5b5fd2b11f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Deixis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Private deixis Ana Paula Arendt I’m stretching my body in yoga movements. Suddenly, the verses stretch too, reaching where they hit the most:   The inner ground where all the poems are already written.   So many people in the world hide their deixis beneath objective speech, working desperately to conceal their own view –outsourcing it to others to express it, torn from their own voices…   Why do they escape from the wonderful ground on which they stand?   They were punished when they...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/private-deixis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f943a3b27e981e27c58f8c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 01:12:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_49ebe3e38ff74b0a843246becac36757~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flower Market in Kolkata]]></title><description><![CDATA[A slightly longer poem for my readers, concerning a complex issue of consciousness: belonging to another person while continuing to love. May you find peace and enjoy the read! Many thanks to the Bengali poet Rabin Ghosh, Sonali e Rone Das for their friendship, company and for the pictures.  The Flower Market in Kolkata Ana Paula Arendt* Now there is a woman who would become a woman—what she is. She longs to become herself without adversatives. Yet she must overcome what she has been made:...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/the-flower-market-in-kolkata</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e741b7a96d49e56ec7e8a6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:37:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_32e6454d55c04913ba246c9d83fbb0a7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_853,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Done with Stupidity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Done with Stupidity by Ana Paula Arendt* BOOK REVIEW – I believe my reader deserves a few words about Ion Parreah’s most recent book, “How Shakespeare Can Save the World: a Survival Guide Against the Apocalypse of Stupidity”. Ion Parreah is a globally acclaimed author, an experienced political actor across several countries in Africa, Oceania, the Balkans, and South America, who chose to write this new book under a pseudonym. He has experienced systems of government that work and those that...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/done-with-stupidity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ddfccc89d2aba13f271c46</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:43:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_3044a714a79a42aaa19c6cf36389ac93~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_366,h_571,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Um basta à estupidez]]></title><description><![CDATA[Um basta à estupidez por Ana Paula Arendt* RESENHA DE LIVRO – Penso que o meu leitor merece algumas palavras sobre o livro mais recente de Ion Parreah, “ How Shakespeare Can Save the World: a Survival Guide Against the Apocalypse of Stupidity ” (em português: “Como Shakespeare Pode Salvar o Mundo: Um Guia de Sobrevivência Contra o Apocalipse da Estupidez”). Ion Parreah é um autor aclamado mundialmente, político experiente em diversos países na África, na Oceania, nos Bálcãs e na América do...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/um-basta-%C3%A0-estupidez</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ddfb0b274b4f0764ceaa9e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:31:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_3044a714a79a42aaa19c6cf36389ac93~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_366,h_571,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry and the Poet]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Tagore’s ancestral home, Jorasanko Thakur Bari — the house where he was born and died — came the first lines of this poem, which I dedicate to him and to Victoria Ocampo, an Argentine woman he admired. Have a good read! Poetry and the Poet Ana Paula Arendt (To Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo) Poetry is not for the poet like water around the fish— unnoticed and transparent, busy making more seafood. Poetry and the poet are more like lovers who meet, from time to time, at a party—...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/the-poetry-and-the-poet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d9dcba46e8409f60b2c52d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:35:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_a68864e4c4f8457c9c31a44773ec2b34~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Faith in You Ana Paula Arendt   I have faith that things lean toward repair— in the nightingale’s words, in the sea’s salt, in the patient grammar of the breeze, that the stones remember. Most would prefer instead belief in the argument of weapons— safety measured in explosions, as if each dispute did not hasten a clearer ruin: disaffection, and death. Man eats man, woman eats woman— violence learning its own appetite. And yet I have faith: above the thin crust our steps fracture, above the...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/faith-in-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d8bb1df43ac3e53fa18fad</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:03:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_1ce04f73f1a5486da55508ba32ad28bd~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Os Melhores poemas sobre o amor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Compartilho com os leitores e amigos os melhores poemas sobre amor de que me lembro – sem prejuízo de que venha a mudar essa lista, descobrindo novos. Claro, vou além do imortal Soneto de Camões, “O amor é fogo que arde sem se ver….; além do Soneto de Fidelidade, de Vinicius de Moraes; e além do Soneto de John Donne à esposa, o qual já trouxe e expliquei por que o considero uma obra do nível do Taj Mahal, singularíssimo. John Donne foi o poeta quem escreveu os versos que se tornaram o título...]]></description><link>https://www.anapaulaarendt.com/single-post/os-melhores-poemas-sobre-o-amor</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cf1c50535e7bcd26994f44</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:03:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c877e_8ae0220e485d40478f8dc5d36cfcc211~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ana Paula Arendt</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>