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Writers

March 8, 2011

Robert Pinsky and aspiring to a “new soul”

I know poetry is a new soul waiting to be awakened. Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading, Writers

Goethe, Maine, poems, poetry, Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Robert Pinsky, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
February 14, 2011

The Wisdom of Thoreau

“I make my own time. I make my own terms.” Continue reading

Philosophy, The Examined Life, Thinkers, Wisdom, Writers

Henry David Thoreau, Maine, Moosehead Lake, The Great North Woods, The Thoreau Society, Walden, Wayne Thomas
December 28, 2010

“I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe.”

I am retiring my blog indefinitely. I am retiring indefinitely. I am retiring. I am. I…. Continue reading

Books, Dogs, Writers, Writing
December 2, 2010

Rimbaud

The phrase, “The books never came…” breaks my heart. Continue reading

Books, Life, Literature, Memoir, Writers

Longfellow Books, Modern Libary, poetry, poets, Rimbaud, The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown
October 20, 2010

Odds and Ends…

“Hello no. I’m putting it on eBay.” Continue reading

Creativity, The infinity of ideas, Uncategorized, Writers

Darwin, graffiti, language, Maine, Mark Zuckerberg, Montaigne, Mostly Fiction, The Social Network
September 4, 2010

“I took great pleasure in this deed of Thoreau’s.”

I think a condition of a worthy life is living in relation to the ideal we hold. Continue reading

Philosophy, The Examined Life, Writers

Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentialsim

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