Sublime
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“I wake up grateful, for life is a gift.”
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
his love of books and his insatiable curiosity of mind
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
What a profound mystery it is to me, the vibrancy of presence, the realness of it, and then, gone.
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
I wish I could throw Elizabeth Alexander’s question by way of poetry, “Are we not of interest to each other?” into town hall meetings, the halls of Congress, and let it roll around for a while.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning,
and her name Mother of Exiles.
Maria Popova • The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
how can we be so happy, when we have been through so much? The forest is not denuded. The trees are standing tall.
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
As I sit alone with these words, I think about how brave he was in so many ways, and how brave he was to go into that studio every day with his demons and his angels, and labor to put them on canvas.