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How TS Eliot found happiness
One of the most famous Romantic poems is I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth. I became somewhat numb to the poem as I grew up, often hearing it chanted by speakers without any real emotion. Reading the poem aloud for myself for the first time was a revelation and truly inspirational. I found the joy the poet found in the simple beaut
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In a famous paper, ‘Death and the midlife crisis’, first published in 1965, Elliot Jacques argued that between the ages of 35 and 65 the work of creative artists changes, from a ‘hot’ and intense creativity to a more ‘sculpted’ one. This, he believed, showed that they’d worked through some of the emotional conflicts that had raged in their earlier
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Ray Loriga, retrato de un escritor en el exilio voluntario: “En esta vida te arrepientes más de los golpes que das que de los que te han dado”
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Who was Jack Gilbert? Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they’d ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn’t so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn
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the months after I met him. His final days were afflicted