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Feb 13
The Free Channel
Walt Whitman,
Preface to Leaves of Grass
The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without inc...
Feb 12
The Fading Coal
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
A Defence of Poetry
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A ma...
Jan 28
The Irreducible Ingredient
Emily Dickinson,
Poems
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
Jan 27
The Blank Canvas's Idiotic Stare
Vincent van Gogh,
Letters to Theo van Gogh
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring at you like some imbecile. You don't know ...
Jan 26
Crooked Roads
William Blake,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.