Sublime

She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.

In 2015, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver sat down with Krista Tippett, host of the popular podcast On Being.

María Vilanova le hizo descubrir, antes todavía de que se recibiera de alférez en la Escuela Militar, todo lo que él no sabía, confinado como había estado hasta entonces en un mundo de armas, consignas, estrategias, códigos, héroes epónimos, batallas, al igual que sus compañeros, completamente al margen de esa sociedad cargada de prejuicios racista

morrow.” She addressed it to Tommy at his club, from which in one short month he would have to resign, unless

But she was acidly disappointed by the price her double—“The Dark Lady of American Letters,” “The Sibyl of Manhattan”—exacted. She confessed that she’d hoped “being famous would be more fun,”9

shut.

After lunch she would drag her rocking chair to the window of her private drawing room (mist and gloom, the scorching, damp wind tearing itself open on the agaves or pushing the chestnutcoloured leaves under the almond trees ; swollen, leaden clouds blurring the green brightness of the sea)

Those who want more detailed histories of Magnum Opus, Inc., can go to their public libraries and ask for either Lavina Waters’ romantic Too Wild a Dream? or Crowther Gomburg’s harsh Primordial Scales.

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