‘Under a spell so the wrong ones can’t find it…’ — from Frost’s “Directive” [POEM]
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“Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell…” — the end of Swinburne’s ‘Ave Atque Vale’, eulogy for Baudelaire (1868) [POEM]
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“Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell…” — the end of Swinburne’s ‘Ave Atque Vale’, eulogy for Baudelaire
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“I want to be declared a natural disaster area—“ — A. R. Ammons shares his hopes for poetic immortality (in parentheses) [POEM]
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On sudden new life, Christina Rossetti’s quasi-devotional “Birthday” [POEM]
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"A change immenser than / A poet's metaphors..." -- from Wallace Steven's "Description without Place" [POEM]
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Emerson’s introductory poem to “Nature” (1836) [POEM]
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"The Fatal Tree of Knowledge" -- Satan, 'hence I will excite their minds', prepares the Fall of Man, Milton's Paradise Lost [POEM]
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“Our torments may in length of time / Become our elements.” — John Milton (Paradise Lost)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.--Oh, so you shall be misunderstood? To be great is to be misunderstood. So were Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther; and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton; and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." -- Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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“The vanquished, suppressed memories of trauma return as the false gods of dream and hysterical symptom.” — Harold Bloom
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“The Dead” by Jones Very, a poem for our times [POEM]
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Archie Ammons ‘quibbles the Colossal’ (1997) [POEM]
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On developing the Historical Sense
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding…” — A Passer-by by Robert Bridges [POEM]
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“To lean belief, the lean word comes…” — from A. R. Ammons’ “Hibernaculum” [POEM]
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“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature…”
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“And for what, except for you…” — the Invocation/Introduction to Wallace Stevens’ Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [POEM]
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Why are you asking that question?
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“An old, and, blind, despised, and dying king,—“ — Shelley’s “England in 1819” [POEM]
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"Infernal Wisdom"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Pusillanimity — Desire of things that conduce but a little to our ends; And fear of things that are but of little hindrance, PUSILLANIMITY."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Milton rebukes Satan, William Blake's "Milton" [POEM]
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