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What Makes Us and What We Make: Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Mutability of Identity and the Limiting Lens of Cultural Appropriation
“We are denizens of an age in which our actions, in the realm of ideology as in the realm of technology, increasingly have global effects. When it comes to the compass of our concern and compassion, humanity as a whole is not too broad a horizon.”
The Milky Way, the Pond, and the Meaning of Life: Thoreau on Solitude, Sympathy, and the Salve for Melancholy
“There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.”
Control for Surrender: Henry Miller’s Stunning Letter to Anaïs Nin About the Value of and the Antidote to Despair
“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance.”
Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other
“Because there is so little opportunity for intimacy in daily life, and because some forms of intimacy (especially if intense) are psychologically impossible for most people, the bulk of the time in serious social life is taken up with playing games.”
Barry Lopez on Storytelling and His Advice on the Three Steps to Becoming a Writer
“It is through story that we embrace the great breadth of memory, that we can distinguish what is true, and that we may glimpse, at least occasionally, how to live without despair in the midst of the horror that dogs and unhinges us.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne on How to Look and Really See
“The mystery is revealed, and after a breath or two, becomes just as great a mystery as before.”
Nick Cave on Songwriting, Truth, and the Mystery of the Unconscious
“Metaphor can create a merciful sense of distance from the cruel idea, or the unspeakable truth, and allow it to exist within us as a kind of poetic radiance, as a work of art.”
In a Library: Emily Dickinson on Why We Read and the Magic of Old Books
A love-poem to those folds in spacetime that take us back to “when Sappho was a living girl.”
The Only Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled
“The Eye altering alters all.”
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