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Poetry is language against which you have no defence
foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”
trapped in ponderous thoughts in his head.
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
Seneca supplied him with one of his favorite epigrams: “Death weighs on him who is known to all, but dies unknown to himself.”
James Miller • Examined Lives
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
James Clear • Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life
‘Boats that stay in the harbour are safe, sweetheart, but that’s not what boats were built for.’
Fredrik Backman • Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series
sculpture in the memory
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance and Other Essays
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
∆ Hart Crane, from a letter quoted in Hart Crane: The Life of an American Poet by Philip Horton (Norton, 1937)
∆ Hart Crane, from a letter quoted in Hart Crane: The Life of an American Poet by Philip Horton (Norton, 1937)
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True ambition in a poet seeks fame in the old sense, to make words that live forever. If even to entertain such ambition reveals monstrous egotism, let me argue that the common alternative is petty egotism that spends itself in small competitiveness, that measures its success by quantity of publication, by blurbs on jackets, by small achievement:
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