Reads tagged with “letters”
How Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West Fell in Love
The real-life story behind “the longest and most charming love letter in literature.”
How to Neutralize Haters: E.E. Cummings, Creative Courage, and the Importance of Protecting the Artist’s Right to Challenge the Status Quo
“War and chaos have plagued the world for quite a long time, but each epoch creates its own special pulse-beat for the artists to interpret.”
The Power of Solidarity in the Conquest of Justice: How Sixteen White Poets Banded Against Police Brutality and Stood Up for Amiri Baraka in 1968
A beacon of searing solidarity by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and other politically awake titans of poetic might.
Abraham Lincoln’s Tough-Love Letter to His Step-Brother About Laziness and Work Ethic
“You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven very cheaply.”
Mary McCarthy on Love and Hannah Arendt’s Advice to Her on Paradox of Changing the People We Love
“What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as-you-were?”
Hemingway’s Tough-Love Letter of Advice to F. Scott Fitzgerald on Writing and Turning Suffering into Creative Fuel
“Forget your personal tragedy… Good writers always come back. Always.”
William Blake’s Most Beautiful Letter: A Timeless Defense of the Imagination and the Creative Spirit
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees.”
David Ogilvy on the True Value of Education: A Brilliant Letter of Advice to His 18-Year-Old Nephew
“Don’t judge the value of higher education in terms of careermanship. Judge it for what it is — a priceless opportunity to furnish your mind and enrich the quality of your life.”
Mary McCarthy on Human Nature, Moral Choice, and How We Decide Whether Evil Is Forgivable
“One has to assume that every man is a thinking reed and a noble nature, even if only part-time.”
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