Shakespeare between 1604-1606. Nothing can compete with this.
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Edmund
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Edmund
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๐ 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' (2023)
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'The world is charged with the grandeur of God.'
Joined June 2013
- Read Dostoevsky.WTF are you supposed to do in your thirties????
- Read, take long walks, memorize poetry, listen to the wind, and cherish those who love you.
- Learning poetry by heart will save your soul.Whatโs an unpopular opinion you believe is genuinely true?
- I've posted this before, but itโs so beautiful that it bears posting again. Joan Didion on Hemingway as her major influence.
- King Charles III reciting Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'God's Grandeur.' The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
00:00 - The literary depth and disciplined reading habits of early 20th-century miners easily surpass those of many contemporary students, including some with English degrees.
- 'The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.' Alberto ManguelCormac McCarthyโs personal library.
- Never in a million years was this written by Kafka.โDon't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.โ โ Franz Kafka, born on this day in 1883
- To paraphrase Harold Bloom, you are what you remember, it is therefore essential to adorn your mind with things beautiful.
- Shakespeare in his prime. How can any one mind achieve so much over a span of time so brief?
