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“The reading of poetry is in itself an act of political resistance to the mainstream. Particularly in this election cycle, where there is this great anxiety for certainty. What is your position? What is your stance? Why are you flip-flopping? There’s an anxiety of certainty and power and boldness … But poetry acknowledges the true complexity of
... See more‘I omit the unusual – the hurricane and earthquakes – and describe the common,’ Thoreau wrote in his journal, ‘this is the true theme of poetry.’
Andrea Wulf • The Invention of Nature
As the poet and essayist Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal in 1851, “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
But only fools and Americans think they can outrun the past.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has
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Harriet Elizabeth obviously had too little to occupy her active mind, so she was directed not only to master the abstractions of Butler’s Analogy but to teach a course on the book to girls of her own age. Harriet Elizabeth accomplished the terrifying assignment by keeping one chapter ahead of her students.