Reads tagged with “letters”
How to Work Through Difficulty: Lewis Carroll’s Three Tips for Overcoming Creative Block
“When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.”
Carl Jung’s Delightfully Disgruntled Review of Ulysses and His Letter to James Joyce
“You may gather from my article what Ulysses has done to a supposedly balanced psychologist.”
How Lewis Carroll’s Rules of Letter-Writing Can Make Email More Civil and Digital Communication Kinder
“If your friend makes a severe remark, either leave it unnoticed, or make your reply distinctly less severe.”
What to Do When Your Wife Is More Successful than You: Wise Advice from Tchaikovsky’s Father, 150 Years Ahead of Its Time
“Married happiness is based upon mutual respect, and you would no more permit your wife to be a kind of servant, than she would ask you to be her lackey.”
Rilke on Winter as the Season for Tending to Your Inner Garden
“What does living come down to but bringing about those changes in ourselves … which can free us to enjoy a richness and closeness with everyone?”
How Ursula Nordstrom, the Greatest Patron Saint of Modern Childhood Stood, Up for Creativity Against Commercial Cowardice
“Oh hell, it just boils down to: you just can’t explain this sort of basic wonderful stuff to some adults.”
Rilke on What It Really Means to Love
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
The Principle of Infinite Pains: Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers
“The love of life itself… seems to me larger than the loving attention to a life. But, of course, each contains the other…”
The Art of Tough Love: Samuel Beckett Models How to Give Constructive Feedback on Your Friends’ Creative Work
“If I were less concerned with you I should simply say it is very good.”
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