Reads tagged with “books”
Why the Sea Is Blue: Rachel Carson on the Science and Splendor of the Marine Spectrum
“The deep blue water of the open sea far from land is the color of emptiness and barrenness; the green water of the coastal areas, with all its varying hues, is the color of life.”
The Great Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz on Love
“Who serves best doesn’t always understand.”
King of the Sky: A Lyrical Illustrated Fable of Belonging and the Meaning of Home
A soulful sidewise gleam at the loneliness of the immigrant experience.
Loneliness in Time: Physicist Freeman Dyson on Immigration and How Severing Our Connection to the Past Shallows Our Present and Hollows Our History
An antidote to today’s perilous self-expatriation from history.
Bluets: Maggie Nelson on the Color Blue as a Lens on Memory, Loneliness, and the Paradoxes of Love
“To wish to forget how much you loved someone — and then, to actually forget — can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
Stephen Hawking on What Makes a Good Theory and the Quest for a Theory of Everything
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.”
Walt Whitman on the “Meaning” of Art and How to Best Access the Poetic
“At its best, poetic lore is like what may be heard of conversation in the dusk, from speakers far or hid, of which we get only a few broken murmurs. What is not gather’d is far more — perhaps the main thing.”
Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love
“Great love is never justified. It’s like the little tree that springs up in some inexplicable fashion on the side of a cliff: where are its roots, what does it feed on, what miracle produces those green leaves?”
Voltaire on the Art of Being Undefeated by Hardship
“All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.”
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