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Chinua Achebe Reads His Little-Known Poems
Chinua Achebe Reads His Little-Known Poems

“We called him visionary missionary revolutionary and, you know, all the other naries that plague the peace…”

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Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality
Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality

On the glorious “difficulty of combining the real with the decidedly un-real.”

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Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep

“Something nameless hums us into sleep… We feel dreamed by someone else, a sleeping counterpart…”

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89 Clouds: A Poetic Celebration of Clouds and Everything They Mean
89 Clouds: A Poetic Celebration of Clouds and Everything They Mean

“Clouds are thoughts without words…”

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Poet Mark Strand on Creativity and the Artist’s Task
Poet Mark Strand on Creativity and the Artist’s Task

“It’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.”

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When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships
When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships

“Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.”

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Possibilities: Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Ode to the Choices That Make Us Who We Are
Possibilities: Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Ode to the Choices That Make Us Who We Are

“I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.”

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Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate
Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate

An intoxicating homage to the ancient practice that milks the brain’s “good glad fluid.”

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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness
Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness

“Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going?”

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Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate

“Attention without feeling … is only a report.”

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