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Susan Howe on Art, Language, Poetry, and More

Happy birthday, Susan Howe! 89, today! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Originality is the discovery of…

Happy birthday, Federico García Lorca! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Only mystery allows us to live,…

Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg! Here are some quotes from his writing: “You say what you want to say…

Happy birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing: “I too am not a bit tamed,…

Happy birthday, John Barth! Here are some quotes from the author: “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…

Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Neither dogmatize yourself, nor accept another’s…

Happy birthday, Lucie Brock-Broido! Here are some quotes from the poet: “I, abstract, adoring, distant / And unsalvageable.”…

Happy birthday, W. G. Sebald! Here are some quotes from his writing: “It would be an ambition of…

By Angus Stewart Modern Taiwanese literature is flush with homegrown genres and movements, many of which bloomed amid the…

Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Make a thing that never…