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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
- Thanks to the help of some fellow poets, Brodsky was able to find refuge in the United States and soon he had teaching positions at Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Michigan. In 1991, nineteen years after being exiled from the Soviet Union (and what must have seemed like an entirely different lifetime), Brodsky was appointed the United States... See more
from Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life by James Clear
Yaro Celis added
- One thinks of Amit Majmudar, Christian Wiman, Tracy K. Smith, Ryan Wilson, and many others. These poets are only rarely published in prestigious publications (or, at least, publications with a prestigious legacy), and the group that should be the biggest supporter of these poets—conservatives—has tended to ignore poetry and the arts. When conserv... See more
from The Integrity of Poetry | Micah Mattix by Micah Mattix
Faith Hahn added
Don't agree with everything Mattix has to say, but the essay raises important questions about literary citizenship, the publishing industry, and the state of literary criticism. Frost understood that the poet’s chief job is to create the right conditions for the blossoming of The Gift. He understood that he needed a chrysalis—a quiet, contemplative life—with plenty of leisure for writing, reading, thinking, contemplating.
from The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope
juarry added
- Poetry makes our thinking and being flexible, prepares us for surprises, invites us into risk, into a complex interplay of references and meanings.
from The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge by Mike Kauschke
Stuart Evans added
- We might inscribe literary fiction’s gravestone with the years 1980 to 2023. The category was intended to resist the constraints of conglomeration, but those constraints proved too powerful, and literary fiction itself succumbed to commercialization. The conditions that made “literary fiction” make sense were short-lived: You can now find The Miste... See more
from What Was Literary Fiction? by Dan Sinykin
Faith Hahn added
- Poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire explains how great ideas arise:
"Inspiration is merely the reward for working every day."
Source: Curiosites Esthetiques (1868)from 3-2-1: On creating the conditions for joy, how to go to hell, and the simple way to clarify your thinking
Natalie Audelo added
- "...maybe something I write will spark something for a reader — a scholar or a writer or a pastor or teacher or who knows what — and become part of her DNA. Maybe she’ll never quote me — maybe she’ll never even realize that she wouldn’t have had that idea if she hadn’t read my essay — but in that way my thought will become part of someone else’s in... See more
from DNA – The Homebound Symphony by Alan Jacobs
Sindhu Shivaprasad added