March 2012
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Wislawa Szymborska Nominated for Sentence of the... →
hmhlit:
The New York Times Magazine’s four nominees for Sentence of the Month included Wislawa Szymborska (though, sadly, she didn’t win):
“As far as you’ve come/can’t be undone.” (Wislawa Szymborska, “On Death, Without Exaggeration,” translated by Baranczak & Cavanagh)
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Barnes & Noble celebrates Richard Wilbur's... →
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“The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,
And spirited from sleep, the astounded
soul...”
– “Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World” by Richard Wilbur
“Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in...”
– Richard Wilbur
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February 2012
15 posts
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Poetry, as described by McSweeney's →
Louise Glück Is a Marvelous Yelper →
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Listen to Maya Angelou Read a Letter to Her... →
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Maya Angelou gets sassy →
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“My Love is of a birth as rare
As ‘tis for object strange and high:
It...”
– “The Definition of Love” by Andrew Marvell
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“See the stars, love,
In the water much clearer and brighter
Than those above...”
– “In a Boat” by D. H. Lawrence
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“It’s all I have to bring today –
This, and my heart beside –
This, and...”
– “It’s all I have to bring today (26)” by Emily Dickinson
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“We cannot live, except thus mutually
We alternate, aware or unaware,
The...”
– “Love” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The best love poems: writers choose their... →
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Charles Simic Has a Secret and it Takes Place in... →
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