Reads tagged with “letters”
Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal
“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”
John Steinbeck on Writing, the Crucible of Creativity, and the Mobilizing Power of the Impossible
“A good writer always works at the impossible.”
Rilke’s Redemption: The Beloved Poet’s Stirring Letter to His Boyhood Teacher at the Military Academy That Almost Broke His Soul
“Life is very singularly made to surprise us (where it does not utterly appall us).”
Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup
“I can’t consider you a friend when out of every contact there comes some intentionally wounding thing.”
The Angels and Demons of Genius: Robert Lowell on What It’s Like to Be Bipolar
“My disease, alas, gives one (during its seizures) a headless heart.”
John Steinbeck on Racism and Bigotry
“I am sad for a time when one must know a man’s race before his work can be approved or disapproved.”
Dostoyevsky on the Heart vs. the Mind and How We Come to Know Truth
“Nature, the soul, love, and God, one recognizes through the heart, and not through the reason… Reason is a tool, a machine, which is driven by the spiritual fire.”
Patti Smith Reads Her Beautiful Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe About How He Taught Her What It Means to Be an Artist
“You drew me from the darkest period of my young life, sharing with me the sacred mystery of what it is to be an artist.”
Great Writers on the Power of Music
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
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