ROBERT FROST ON POEMS July 15, 2010
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Robert Frost said that a poem “begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love of sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.”
WRITING AND THINKING July 8, 2010
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David McCullough says, “To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.” That sounds good to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON ON NEWSPAPERS July 4, 2010
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Thomas Jefferson said — or maybe wrote? — “I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.” I’m beginning to think maybe I should do the same….
BUDDHA ON WORK July 4, 2010
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Buddha says, “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” I wish someone had told me this a long time ago….
