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Favorite Children’s Books of 2023

Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the interconnectedness of life.

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Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

“Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.”

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I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Fable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light

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Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work

“There is no greatness without a little stubbornness… Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity.”

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Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit

How to tell a plaything from a necessity.

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Working Out, Working In: Applying the Six Principles of Athletic Training to Writing and Creative Work

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Octavio Paz on Freedom

“Without freedom, what we call a person does not exist.”

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Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing

“No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do.”

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What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life

“We understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment.”

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Make Yourself a Seer: The Teenage Arthur Rimbaud on How to Be a Poet and a Prophet of Possibility

“The day of a single universal language will dawn!… This language will be of the soul, for the soul, encompassing everything, scents, sounds, colors, one thought mounting another.”

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Search results for “james baldwin”

Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the interconnectedness of life.

“Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.”

“There is no greatness without a little stubbornness… Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity.”

How to tell a plaything from a necessity.

“Without freedom, what we call a person does not exist.”

“No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do.”

“We understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment.”

“The day of a single universal language will dawn!… This language will be of the soul, for the soul, encompassing everything, scents, sounds, colors, one thought mounting another.”

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