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Whitman’s Urban Reverie: A Passionate Ode to the City from the Poet Laureate of Nature

“Give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!.. Give me the streets of Manhattan!”

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Alan Lightman on Immortality and Our Touching Longing for Permanence in a Universe of Constant Change

A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.

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Picasso on Success and Why You Should Never Compromise in Creative Work

“One must have the courage of one’s vocation and the courage to make a living from one’s vocation.”

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Pioneering Psychologist Jerome Bruner on the 6 Pillars of Creativity and How to Master the Art of “Effective Surprise”

“Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.”

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George Lucas on the Meaning of Life

“There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.”

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Anatomy of the Influences Behind <em>Star Wars</em>: A Mashup Masterpiece

Anatomy of the Influences Behind Star Wars: A Mashup Masterpiece

From Igor Stravinsky to Tintin to Akira Kurosawa.

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Pete Seeger on Combinatorial Creativity, Originality, Equality, and the Art of Dot-Connecting

“All of us, we’re links in a chain. And if we do our job right, there will be many, many links to come.”

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Kierkegaard on Our Greatest Source of Unhappiness

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.”

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Schopenhauer on Style

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”

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The River: A Watercolor Serenade to the Inner Seasons of Human Life

A beautiful reminder that despite its occasional cruelties, life is mostly joyful, radiant, and above all ever-flowing.

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Search results for “henry miller”

“Give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!.. Give me the streets of Manhattan!”

A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.

“One must have the courage of one’s vocation and the courage to make a living from one’s vocation.”

“Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.”

“There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.”

From Igor Stravinsky to Tintin to Akira Kurosawa.

“All of us, we’re links in a chain. And if we do our job right, there will be many, many links to come.”

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.”

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”

A beautiful reminder that despite its occasional cruelties, life is mostly joyful, radiant, and above all ever-flowing.

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