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Reads tagged with “poetry”

The Encounter: How Young Vladimir Nabokov Met the Love of His Life and Won Her Heart with a Poem
The Encounter: How Young Vladimir Nabokov Met the Love of His Life and Won Her Heart with a Poem

“Longing, and mystery, and delight…”

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Beastly Verse: Beloved Poems About Animals, Illustrated
Beastly Verse: Beloved Poems About Animals, Illustrated

“Stories are a meal. But poetry is a glass of water, perhaps even a single drop that will save your life.”

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Chinua Achebe Reads His Little-Known Poems
Chinua Achebe Reads His Little-Known Poems

“We called him visionary missionary revolutionary and, you know, all the other naries that plague the peace…”

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Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality
Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality

On the glorious “difficulty of combining the real with the decidedly un-real.”

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Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep

“Something nameless hums us into sleep… We feel dreamed by someone else, a sleeping counterpart…”

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What Power Really Means: Cheryl Strayed Reads Adrienne Rich’s Homage to Marie Curie
What Power Really Means: Cheryl Strayed Reads Adrienne Rich’s Homage to Marie Curie

A poetic and precise formulation of what it means to be a great artist, a great woman, and a great human being.

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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak
Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak

“Sit. Feast on your life.”

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When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships
When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships

“Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.”

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Amanda Palmer Reads Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Glorious Poem “Possibilities”
Amanda Palmer Reads Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Glorious Poem “Possibilities”

“I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.”

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Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate
Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate

An intoxicating homage to the ancient practice that milks the brain’s “good glad fluid.”

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