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Reads tagged with “poetry”

Pablo Neruda’s Extraordinary Life, in an Illustrated Love Letter to Language
Pablo Neruda’s Extraordinary Life, in an Illustrated Love Letter to Language

A swirling celebration of one of the greatest creative icons of the twentieth century.

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Kahlil Gibran on the Absurdity of Self-Righteousness
Kahlil Gibran on the Absurdity of Self-Righteousness

A simple reminder that nothing undoes dignity like peevish indignation.

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Mary Oliver Reads Her Beloved Poem “Wild Geese”
Mary Oliver Reads Her Beloved Poem “Wild Geese”

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination…”

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“Don’t Read Books!” A 12th-Century Zen Poem
“Don’t Read Books!” A 12th-Century Zen Poem

“It’s annoying for others to have to hear you.”

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“Vacation Sex”: A Poem by Dorianne Laux
“Vacation Sex”: A Poem by Dorianne Laux

“…in hotels under overpasses or rooms next to ice machines, friends’ fold-out couches…”

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Lucinda Williams on Compassion
Lucinda Williams on Compassion

“You do not know what wars are going on down there, where the spirit meets the bone.”

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Sylvia Plath on Poetry and a Rare Recording of Her Reading the Poem “The Disquieting Muses”
Sylvia Plath on Poetry and a Rare Recording of Her Reading the Poem “The Disquieting Muses”

“Darker emotions may well put on the mask of quite unworldly things.”

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Mary Oliver on the Magic of Punctuation and a Reading of Her Soul-Stretching Poem “Seven White Butterflies”
Mary Oliver on the Magic of Punctuation and a Reading of Her Soul-Stretching Poem “Seven White Butterflies”

“All eternity is in the moment.”

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O Captain! My Captain! David Foster Wallace, Robin Williams, Walt Whitman, and the Unholy Ghost of Suicide
O Captain! My Captain! David Foster Wallace, Robin Williams, Walt Whitman, and the Unholy Ghost of Suicide

“My Captain does not answer … he has no pulse nor will.”

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The Poetics of Reverie: Philosopher Gaston Bachelard on Love, Solitude, and Happiness
The Poetics of Reverie: Philosopher Gaston Bachelard on Love, Solitude, and Happiness

“Love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.”

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