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I wanted to read a poem that had recently moved me. I had been trying to read it every night, as a prelude to dinner or a coda to dinner, but things kept getting in the way. The mood, for instance. It wasn’t a very poem-y poem, but it was a poem, and I guess it had that against it. Still, it was funny and affecting, and I saw it as a moral Trojan h... See more

Celine Nguyen • how to change your life, part 1: l.a. paul's transformative experience

Here is a man tallied – he realizes here what he has in him, The past, the future, majesty, love – if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

Walt Whitman • The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

Gently disintegrate me WS Graham

Ali Smith • Autumn: SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 (Seasonal Quartet Book 1)

"When I am dead do not name me in relation to capital I will be wageless & worthless & perfect." –Brendan Joyce

what am I without those who understand me?

Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop “Leaving One” by Ralph Angel “A Cat in an Empty Apartment” by Wisława Szymborska “Apples” by Deborah Digges “Michiko Nogami (1946–1982)” by Jack Gilbert “Eating Alone” by Li-Young Lee “The Potter” by Peter Levitt “Black Dog, Red Dog” by Stephen Dobyns “The Word” by Mark Cox “Death” by Maurycy Szymel “This” by Czeslaw

Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

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Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were—I have not seen

As others saw—I could not bring

My passions from a common spring—

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow—I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone—

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone

Edgar Allan Poe

person beside a person inside a life. That’s called parataxis. That’s called the future.