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‘I’m uncommonly glad to be here – I was never so proud and happy in my life – never so happy, you know.’ This was a bold figure of speech, but not exactly the right thing; for, unhappily, the pat opening had slipped away – even couplets from Pope may be but ‘fallings from us, vanishings’,215 when fear clutches us, and a glass of sherry is hurrying
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
A spirit of enlightenment, joy, curiosity, wonder. A sense of kinship with the others. To me, libraries have always functioned as lighthouses – living, breathing monuments to the light of human consciousness. They are places that lost and weary souls can go to in search of relief. Public libraries are one of the things that civilization got really,... See more
In your heart may there be a sanctuary
For the stillness where clarity is born.
May your work be infused with passion and creativity
And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.
For the stillness where clarity is born.
May your work be infused with passion and creativity
And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.
Jennifer Lentfer • Friday’s Poetic Pause: “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue – How Matters
James Baldwin, Malcolm X.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
half-obliterated words: “flowery avenues.”
Albert Camus • The Plague
Good Bones
poetryfoundation.org
A woman in her eighties is a sage. She is dignity and wisdom. She inspires the world. She has gravitas. She is elegant.
