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One of the most famous Romantic poems is I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth. I became somewhat numb to the poem as I grew up, often hearing it chanted by speakers without any real emotion. Reading the poem aloud for myself for the first time was a revelation and truly inspirational. I found the joy the poet found in the simple beaut
... See moreAndrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
And the curious disappearance of satire from our literature is an instance of the fierce things fading for want of any principle to be fierce about. Nietzsche had some natural talent for sarcasm: he could sneer, though he could not laugh; but there is always something bodiless and without weight in his satire, simply because it has not any mass of
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Poetry
Joachim Baan • 1 card

“And . . . the worst of it was he was so coarse, so dirty, he had the manners of a pothouse; and . . . and even admitting that he knew he had some of the essentials of a gentleman . . . what was there in that to be proud of? Everyone ought to be a gentleman and more than that . . . and all the same (he remembered) he, too, had done little things .
... See moreFyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
Why do we read and write poetry? (Dead Poets Society)
youtube.comPoetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions—beautiful writing rarely is. I wanted to learn to write, which was ultimately, still, as my mother had taught me, a confro
... See moreTa-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
