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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because…
— Robert Adams
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Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his…
— Unknown Author
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,…
— Mark Strand
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Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's…
— Jane Campion
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Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his…
— Forrest Gander
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By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.
— Mary Oliver
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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her…
— Virginia Woolf
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Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
— Charles Bukowski
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when…
— Natasha Trethewey
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