@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social I was listening to one of your past Close Readings and the John Hollander quote came up about a poem justifying its own breaking of the silence. I knew the quote but wanted to track down the source but having a devil of a time with it. Any help?
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Thank you!
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Travis Scholl โ ANMLY
Haven't posted on this platform for awhile, but wanted to share this bit of creative nonfiction that's now out in the world. I am deeply grateful to the editors of @anmlymag.bsky.social for giving it the light of day.
anmly.org/ap41/travis-...
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"Hope is fragile, but hard to kill."
~Andre Agassi, a few minutes ago during the broadcast of the French Open semifinal between Carlos Alcaraz and Lorenzo Musetti
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"When you try to stay in the moment, the next moment has a way of taking care of itself."
~Sterling K. Brown
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โAs my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation โ either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.โ
~MLK
www.valpo.edu/mlk/
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โYes, I pray, and so do you, and you know it: when everything goes badly, we throw ourselves into prayer, to rediscover the atmosphere of our first communion. And you do it, you do too.โ
~Henri Matisse to Pablo Picasso
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My current amazement is Sufjan Stevensโ Javelin. youtu.be/LqLflZ3EOQ0?...
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And so it begins.
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โAnyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle.โ
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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RIP, Louise Glรผck.
I ask you, how much beautyโจcan a person bear?
(from โBasketsโ)
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Much thanks, Paul, for ferrying us over the River Styx.
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To continue, another essay.
www.essaydaily.org/2021/07/the-...
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To begin my time here, an essay.
aftertheart.com/2021/06/15/o...
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