May 2013
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Books aren’t all supposed to be our best friends. Sometimes they’re supposed to...
– Kevin Smokler (via millionsmillions)
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April 2013
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For me, though, it’s not just, or even primarily, about sorrow. What comes...
– Barbara J. King, comparing human and animal grief.
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1. All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen...
– Prospero’s Precepts – 11 rules for critical thinking from history’s great minds. (via explore-blog)
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[Age] makes you more aware of other people’s lives. You see more from the...
– William Maxwell, 1982. Pair with Neil deGrasse Tyson on why you should live like the mayfly and Tolstoy on the meaning of life. (via explore-blog)
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March 2013
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has...
– John Stuart Mill (via nevver)
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Art and music are the first things to go in schools. The role of art is...
– Ira Coyne, sign painter. (via explore-blog)
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...
– Henry David Thoreau
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Epitaph
When I die
Give what’s left of me away
To children
And old men that...
– Noticing this morning’s reblog from Humans of New York, our producer Phyllis Myers was reminded of this poem, which is a favorite of hers, and it’s so lovely I wanted to pass it along to the rest of you. (via nprfreshair)
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I think I came to really understand something very deep that served my poetry...
– Elizabeth Alexander, interviewed at On Being