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Mar 3
Another More Mysterious Dimension
Simone Weil,
Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God (Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd)
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an ho...
Feb 28
Riding on Its Own Melting
Robert Frost,
The Figure a Poem Makes
It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. No one can really hold ...
Feb 13
The Free Channel
Walt Whitman,
Preface to Leaves of Grass
The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without inc...
Feb 12
The Fading Coal
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
A Defence of Poetry
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A ma...
Jan 28
The Irreducible Ingredient
Emily Dickinson,
Poems
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
Jan 27
The Blank Canvas's Idiotic Stare
Vincent van Gogh,
Letters to Theo van Gogh
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring at you like some imbecile. You don't know ...
Jan 26
Crooked Roads
William Blake,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.