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Tag Archives: humility
Two Attitudes: The Power of Poetry
There are two basic attitudes regarding the power of poetry. The first is summed up by Tennyson’s Ulysses who, though old, manages to convince his men to sail with him once again “to strive, to seek, to find and not … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante, humility, Milton, Poetry, Tennyson, Ulysses, Uses of Poetry
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Humility & Poetry
Eliot says that humility is endless. And Thoreau says that “humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.” But I’ve been thinking lately about a book called The Wisdom of the Desert, translated by Thomas Merton, which is a compendium of meditations, lessons … Continue reading
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Tagged Eliot, God, humility, Merton, poem, Poems, poet, Poetry, poets, Revise, Revision, The Wisdom of the Desert, Thomas Merton, Thoreau, Yes
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On “Can Creative Writing Be Taught?”
This week in the New Yorker Louis Menand reviews a book called The Program Era by Marc McGurl. According to Menand, the book attempts to make the argument – and I’m simplifying here – that the proliferation of creative writing programs has not only affected the way we write … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Writing, Eliot, Emerson, faith, genius, greatness, humility, Kafka, Menand, MFA, Poetry, teaching, the spirit, Whitman
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