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Shonda Rhimes on Dreaming vs. Doing, the Tradeoffs of Success, and the Blinders of Entitlement
Shonda Rhimes on Dreaming vs. Doing, the Tradeoffs of Success, and the Blinders of Entitlement

“You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day — so start writing.”

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The Greatest Commencement Addresses of All Time
The Greatest Commencement Addresses of All Time

Kurt Vonnegut, J.K. Rowling, David Foster Wallace, Patti Smith, Anna Quindlen, Steve Jobs, and more.

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Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can Make
Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can Make

“Art is something that you encounter and you know it’s in a different kind of space from the rest of your life, but is directly connected to it.”

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William Butler Yeats on Modern Poetry: A Rare 1936 BBC Recording
William Butler Yeats on Modern Poetry: A Rare 1936 BBC Recording

“Poetry must resemble prose, and both must accept the vocabulary of their time.”

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Inside The Kelly Writers House Audio Archives
Inside The Kelly Writers House Audio Archives

The muses of happiness and misery, or what closet hedonism has to do with the arts.

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Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”

A rare and wonderful LP from 1970.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love, Animated
John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love, Animated

“You’ve got to work on it. It is a precious gift, and it’s a plant, and you’ve got to look after it and water it.”

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Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Book”
Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Book”

“When I close a book I open life… I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss…”

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Charles Olson Reads “Maximus, to Himself”: A Rare 1963 Recording
Charles Olson Reads “Maximus, to Himself”: A Rare 1963 Recording

“I have had to learn the simplest things last.”

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Astronomy as Existential Calibration: A Poetic Manifesto for Science from Two Centuries Before the Golden Age of Space Telescopes
Astronomy as Existential Calibration: A Poetic Manifesto for Science from Two Centuries Before the Golden Age of Space Telescopes

“Astronomy has enlarged the sphere of our conceptions, and opened to us a universe without bounds, where the human Imagination is lost.”

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