This Scene from “Dead Poets Society” Soothed my Aching Heart.
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This Scene from “Dead Poets Society” Soothed my Aching Heart.
art is a tool that can help release us from our numbness and provide for catharsis in areas where we have for too long been wrong-headedly brave.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
What I’m in search of is maybe hard to explain in a neat sentence, but, maybe, it’s some sense of resonance. You know when you’re reading and you’re like “Oh, this person is saying this thing I’ve been thinking or feeling forever, but didn’t know how to express in words?” That’s a beautiful feeling when you can see yourself more clearly through... See more
On the value of being a beginner
“Do you think human creativity matters? Well, most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re really not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anyone’s poems—until, their father dies; they go to a funeral; you lose a child; someone breaks your heart.
And all of a sudden you’re
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