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Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Love at First Sight,” Illustrated
“Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.”
Women Holding Things: Artist Maira Kalman’s Tender and Quirky Ode to the Weight of the World and the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
“There can never be enough time. And you can never hold on to it.”
Mushrooms: Cellist Zoë Keating Brings to Life Sylvia Plath’s Poem About the Tenacity of the Creative Spirit
“Our foot’s in the door.”
Apple Meditation: John Burroughs on the Portable Philosophy of Humanity’s Favorite Fruit
“I think if I could subsist on you… I should never have an intemperate or ignoble thought, never he feverish or despondent… I should be cheerful, continent, equitable, sweet-blooded, long-lived, and should shed warmths and contentment around.”
A Chaos of Delight: Darwin on the Sublimity and Transcendence of Nature
“No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.”
The Temple of Flora: Stunning Illustrations of Flowers Inspired by Erasmus Darwin’s Radical Scientific Poem About the Sexual Reproduction of Plants
“If thou art perfectly at leisure… walk in, and view the wonders of my enchanted garden.”
First Kiss: An Animated Ode to One of Life’s Great Felicities
“…if the Great Mother rushed open the moon like a gift and you were there to feel your shadow finally unhooked from your wrist…”
Kierkegaard on How to Save Yourself
“I am, in the deepest sense, an unhappy individual who since my earliest days have been nailed fast to some suffering close to insanity.”
The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life
“One who has dared to be gloriously good and gloriously bad in one life. No Limbo for her. Rather let life itself grow living monuments out of trees and living words so that death can never take from our half-lives this radiant living that was lived among us.”
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