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A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield

A man who was married to someone who wasn’t me gave me an entire packing box of an old,…

Happy birthday, Gwendolyn Brooks! Here are some quotes from her writing. “Remember that ART is refining and evocative translation…

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

Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg! Here are some quotes from his writing. “To gain your own voice, forget about having…

“Things—small things—are riding down the gutter with the rain.” —Paradise Field, Pamela Ryder The poetic weight of a…

Happy 200th birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing. “This is what you shall do: Love…

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

Happy birthday, John Barth! 89, today! 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. “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”…

Happy birthday, Raymond Carver! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews. “At the risk of appearing foolish,…