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My favorite people are those who ask, “What do you like about it?” when you say you love a work of art. This question itself is love. It’s setting aside ego. Love is wanting to know why someone loves what they love, & beholding their appreciation. These people are extremely rare.

DO NOT tell the poets

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— Leila Chatti

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A word for periods of time where your structures of meaning feel… not collapsed but sort of loosened/disoriented. Like you are existentially drunk.

― Mary Oliver, August

When I sometimes talk about the academic 'caste' system and the sharp line separating tenure-track and non-tenure track, this is what I mean. The TT faculty of a department met and reportedly decided, in secret, to fire all 23 of their NTT colleagues. @tom.kealey/overview-of-the-stanford-creative-writing-lecturer-situation-c60888edb3d8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@tom.kealey/ov…

The most difficult thing about teaching writing, I think, is the utter inability to convey to students that as you get better at it, it gets harder, not easier--that composition *slows*, instead of speeding up. Close to the exact opposite of acquiring athletic or physical prowess

A study was published on how personality traits relate to life satisfaction. The no.1 trait of people satisfied with life? “Having a lot of fun.” Here’s what else they found:

Susan Sontag. This scans.

I wasn’t built from millions of years of stardust to deal with this shit

I watched the trees gradually recede, waving their despairing arms, seeming to say to me: "What you fail to learn from us today, you will never know."