Coffee With The Classics

Never tell me the classics aren’t relevant to everyone. from James Baldwin CoffeeWithTheClassics @coffeewclassics.bsky.social

Never tell me the classics aren’t relevant to everyone.

from James Baldwin

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@coffeewclassics.bsky.social

Evergreen reminder from Dostoevsky, who died this day in 1881.

I try to keep this in mind.

Chesterton, 1905.

“What’s to-day? What’s to-day, my fine fellow?”

A needed reminder from John Donne.

Robert Louis Stevenson wants you to stop lying.

(He died on this day in 1894.)

Philip Larkin, words to live by.

(He died on this day, December 2nd, in 1985)

Happy 150th Birthday, Lucy Maud Montgomery!

I dare you to read Anne of Green Gables and not come away more in love with life.

Happy 189th Birthday, Mark Twain!

I think of this CS Lewis passage often.

(Today’s his birthday)

Happy Thanksgiving from Oscar Wilde.

from A Woman of No Importance

CS Lewis died on this day in 1963.

Four days later, his friend JRR Tolkien wrote the following:

161 years ago, this speech was delivered.

One of the finest and most succinct examples of English language rhetoric ever produced.

Worth studying and memorizing.

YouTube video by Timothy Kenny Tour The Largest Home Library on Reddit - Complete Loeb Classical Library and More

Absolutely in awe of this home library tour. NINE HOURS LONG.

youtu.be/NtMVw1HnbYs

If Mike Tyson reads the classics, why can’t you?

Time for this book?

I saw this quote going around and checked its authenticity — it’s indeed real, from a 2002 interview published in the Daily Telegraph.

If Mike Tyson reads the classics, why can’t you?

on the bright side, maybe the collapse of the internet into competing social media platforms and a flood of AI slop will drive us all back to reading.

Tom Wolfe. 2005.

Twitter is the drafts folder for here.

Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Evergreen reminder.

Aquinas.