Search results for “velocity of being”
Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody
“The perilous time for the most highly gifted is not youth… The perilous season is middle age, when a false wisdom tempts them to doubt the divine origin of the dreams of their youth…”
The Conflicted Love Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller: How an Intense Unclassifiable Relationship Shaped the History of Modern Thought
We suffer by wanting different things often at odds with one another, but we suffer even more by wanting to want different things.
Toni Morrison on the Power of Art and the Writer’s Singular Service to Humanity
“Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it from even the most tragic of circumstances. Art reminds us that we belong here. And if we serve, we last.”
Oliver Sacks on Libraries
In praise of intellectual freedom, community, and the ecstasy of serendipitous discovery.
Jacqueline Woodson’s Lovely Letter to Children About Kindness, Presence, and How Books Transform Us
“Why are you kissing me in the middle of the sentence?!”
Alexander Chee’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Save Us
“A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have.”
Trailblazing Writer and Feminist Margaret Fuller on the Social Value of Intellectual Labor and Why Artists Ought to Be Paid
“The circulating medium… is abused like all good things, but without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil.”
Reading for Life: Polish Poet Aleksander Wat on How Books Helped Him Survive in a Soviet Prison
“I had a great desire to live because I found Nietzsche’s amor fati in every trifle in every book, even the pessimistic ones. The more pessimistic the book, the more pulsating energy, life energy, I felt beneath its surface — as if all of literature were only the praise of life’s beauty, of all of life…”
What It Means to Be a Writer: John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech About Slicing Through Humanity’s Confusion
“A writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.”
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