Search results for “william blake”
The Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers About the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”
35 Odd Jobs Celebrated Painter Agnes Martin Held Before She Became an Artist
From butcher to ice cream scooper to elevator operator, “also raised rabbits and ducks.”
A Revolution With No Rewind: Galileo’s Daughter and How the Patron Saint of Astronomy Reconciled Science and Spirituality
“Although science has soared beyond his quaint instruments, it is still caught in his struggle.”
When Breath Becomes Air: A Young Neurosurgeon Examines the Meaning of Life as He Faces His Death
“When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world…”
The New Age of Wonder: Freeman Dyson on the Future of Science and Why Biologists Are the New Poets
“A new generation of artists, writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses, might create an abundance of new flowers and fruit and trees and birds to enrich the ecology of our planet.”
May Sarton on the Artist’s Duty to Contact the Timeless in Tumultuous Times
“Now it has become impossible to guard one’s soul… We are forced to read the papers, and yet… our job is somehow or other to be above the mêlée, or so deeply in it that one comes through to something else, something universal and timeless.”
May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
Allen Ginsberg on the Tyranny of the Closet, Coming Out to His Loved Ones, and How Buddhist Meditation Helped Him Stop Seeking Approval
“Wanting approval … is a kind of aggression.”
The Best Science Books of 2015
From Earth’s largest-hearted creature to the interconnectedness of the universe, by way of Einstein and artificial intelligence.
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