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• Mar 25 The Texture of Existence Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human pe...
• Mar 5 Spend It All Annie Dillard, The Writing Life One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, r...
• Feb 17 A Mania for Drawing Katsushika Hokusai, Postscript to 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji' From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published...
• Feb 16 The Song That Waits Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
• Feb 7 The Poetic Faculty Henry David Thoreau, Walden There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's buildi...
• Jan 23 Property of Breath Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 84 We should follow, men say, the example of the bees, who flit about and cull the flowers that are sui...