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• Apr 17 A Mind of Winter Wallace Stevens, Harmonium One must have a mind of winter
• Apr 2 Before Words John Berger, Ways of Seeing Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
• Mar 18 Nothing Now but Kestrel Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious of my surrounding...
• Feb 27 The Questions Answers Hide James Baldwin, The Creative Process The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society—the politicians, legislator...
• Feb 10 What We Agree To William James, The Principles of Psychology Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my e...
• Feb 1 Remaining in Uncertainties John Keats, Letter to George and Tom Keats I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in...
• Jan 17 The Irritable Reaching John Keats, Letter to George and Tom Keats (December 21, 1817) I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed...