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Baudelaire on the Genius of Childhood
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.”
How Horses Civilized Humanity, Shrank the Distance of Love, and Shaped the Way We Conduct Our Romantic Relationships
“People no longer conducted romances as they did before… The horse revamped the limits of our personal freedom.”
Auden on the True Task of the Critic, What It Really Means to Be a Scholar, and Why Malevolent Reviews Are Bad for Character
“The only sensible procedure for a critic is to keep silent about works which he believes to be bad, while at the same time vigorously campaigning for those which he believes to be good, especially if they are being neglected or underestimated by the public.”
Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
“Truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are.”
How to Neutralize Haters: E.E. Cummings, Creative Courage, and the Importance of Protecting the Artist’s Right to Challenge the Status Quo
“War and chaos have plagued the world for quite a long time, but each epoch creates its own special pulse-beat for the artists to interpret.”
A Child of Books: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Wondrous World of Words and Stories
A jubilant paean to books as participatory engines of self-discovery, self-creation, and self-transformation.
Oliver Sacks on Death, Destiny, and the Redemptive Radiance of a Life Fully Lived
“It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.”
Auden on Writing, Originality, Self-Criticism, and How to Be a Good Reader
“It would only be necessary for a writer to secure universal popularity if imagination and intelligence were equally distributed among all men.”
The Effortless Effort of Creativity: Jane Hirshfield on Storytelling, the Art of Concentration, and Difficulty as a Consecrating Force of Creative Attention
“In the wholeheartedness of concentration, world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be felt, what may be done.”
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