Search results for “Adrienne Rich”
Keeping Quiet: Sylvia Boorstein Reads Pablo Neruda’s Beautiful Ode to Silence
A lyrical reminder to break the momentum of busyness that fuels “the sadness of never understanding ourselves.”
Reinventing the Secular Sermon: Remarkable Commencement Addresses by Nora Ephron, David Foster Wallace, Ira Glass, and More
How to live life “on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”
How to Listen Between the Lines: Anna Deavere Smith on the Art of Listening in a Culture of Speaking
“Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.”
John Dewey on the True Purpose of Education and How to Harness the Power of Our Natural Curiosity
“While it is not the business of education … to teach every possible item of information, it is its business to cultivate deep-seated and effective habits of discriminating tested beliefs from mere assertions, guesses, and opinions.”
The Little Red Schoolbook: An Honest Vintage Guide to Teenage Sexuality, Education Reform, and Independent Thinking
“Leaders remain leaders only as long as you let them.”
Anne Sexton’s Sensual Love Poem “Song for a Lady,” in an Animation Inspired by Oliver Sacks
“So many doors open when you are present with an angle.”
What Mathematics Reveals About the Secret of Lasting Relationships and the Myth of Compromise
Why 37% is the magic number, what alien civilizations have to do with your soul mate, and how to master the “negativity threshold” ideal for Happily Ever After.
October 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize
“A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — that is, the written word.”
Anne Truitt on Compassion, Humility, and How to Cure Our Chronic Self-Righteousness
“Love… is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.”
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