From the category archives:

Poetry

Walden

August 13, 2010

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living [...]

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Song of Myself

June 10, 2009

Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude, How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat? What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you? All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me… – Walt Whitman

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Meditations in an Emergency

March 7, 2009

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up. – Frank O’Hara

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Wisdom from Ralph Waldo Emerson

January 25, 2009

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,  that is genius.  Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the utmost and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets [...]

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