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If she’s doing what she’s supposed to
then she deserves Chanel.
And more.
Much, much more.
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If you are sad on a yacht you are sad.
If you are happy in jail you are happy.
Absolutely nothing matters outside of your state of mind.
Few.
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“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.”
- Anne Sexton
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Poets are just people who have read poetry and been moved by that poetry to emulation. Poetry is inspired by reading poetry.
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But that night, I drove home alone With nothing swinging in the cage of my heart
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Go, little book...
...stay out as late as you like,
don’t bother to call or write,
and talk to as many strangers as you can.
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And the rain was constant and cold—fine days
to curl up with a good book, someone joked—
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Today's Featured Poet:
Shane Kowalski lives in Pennsylvania. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in EPOCH, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere.
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Today's Featured Poet:
Shane Book is a poet and filmmaker whose most recent poetry collection, Congotronic (University of Iowa Press, 2014), was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
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I was today’s year old when I learned that Friedrich Nietzsche was actually writing on these:
Here is why:
Nietzsche was nearly blind, constantly battling migraines, and physically breaking down in the 1880s.
Writing by hand became torture.
So he turned to one of the strangest machines ever built: the Malling-Hansen Writing Bal, basically a spiked, spherical typewriter that looks more like a medieval weapon than a writing tool.
And here’s the kicker:
The machine changed how he thought.
Typing forced brevity, compression and impact.
Long, winding sentences gave way to sharp aphorisms.
Nietzsche himself noticed it:
“Our writing tools are also working on our thoughts.”
A different medium -> a different mind -> a different philosophy.
Makes you wonder what our current tools are doing to our thinking.
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“Some people who are very dissatisfied with their lives nevertheless have no intention of changing their own behavior. They want to keep on doing what they have always done, but just have it turn out differently.”
— Thomas Sowell
