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Naomi Shihab Nye, "Come with Me"

I spent Valentine's Day thinking about Transformers branded Valentine's cards from grade school.

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Matsuo Bashō, "Winter solitude"

I believe Bashō and Stevens have something to say about writers who are too comic.

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Jane Hirshfield, "All the Difficult Hours and Minutes"

Hirshfield's poem brings us to a number of pains and frustrations. They are "difficult hours and minutes," "like salted plums in a jar."

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Louise Glück, "On Realism"

What exactly do I get out of what I read? How can my reading be of value to others?

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Emily Dickinson and Political Philosophy: On "My Reward for Being," J343

I am so, so jealous of Dickinson's confidence in this poem.

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Robert Creeley, "Help Heaven"

I think attention should be paid to how well Creeley uses phrases on the edge of cliche.

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Ted Kooser, "Starlight"

...there are desires connected with the unknowable, and those desires underlie things like religious belief.

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Robert Frost, "The Pasture"

...there's real value for real people in creating things which do not strive for immortal status.

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Yosa Buson, "Yearning for the Past"

I believe most of us can relate to getting older, losing friends, and becoming lonelier.

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John Wieners, "Plus Mine" & Robert Frost, "Meeting and Passing"

I wonder about the 11 year old kid brought to the White House to mow the lawn while Trump yelled at him.

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Charles Simic, "Fear"

I always thought the one benefit of getting older would be becoming less panicky.

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Robert Frost, "Hyla Brook"

In order to do political philosophy, one has to actually know something practical.

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from Hanif Abdurraqib's "All the TV Shows Are About Cops"

...I live in the United States of Kyle Rittenhouse.

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Emily Dickinson, "Best Witchcraft is Geometry" (1158)

If geometry, the shapes which compose everyday life, is witchcraft, then a little more awareness of what helps is actually a minor miracle.

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Boris Pasternak, "The Wind"

I'll try to speak to the past but there doesn't seem to be much of it. It won't speak back.

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Linda Norton, "Monk"

What happens when you pick up a hobby you left behind as a kid, 22 years ago?

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Emily Dickinson, "To fill a Gap" (546)

I believe it is possible to speak of loss as lasting without completely exonerating those who are greedy, panicked, or paranoid.

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Robert Frost, "Bond and Free"

...it is a challenge to show not how philosophy engages particular issues in detail, but that it does so at all.

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Kobayashi Issa, "the butterfly I passed"

There are moments when we're more than we are, and they're not necessarily moments of triumphant heroism.

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W.H. Auden, "Domesday Song"

Reality itself can't explain reality.

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Emily Dickinson, "Perception of an object costs" (1071)

Did Dickinson send something so elaborate just to say "get out of my life?"

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Kay Ryan, "Lime Light"

The more one has to deal with, the more one has to take seriously.

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Seamus Heaney, "Lightenings viii"

It's exciting to declare you're exploring Plato, stumbling upon problems few have seen or will see. It's tempting to believe there must be wisdom in such a rarified activity.

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Rae Armantrout, "Influence"

I do not believe the classics will be lost, unread and thrown aside, because things I don't like are popular.

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Kobayashi Issa, "[the snow is melting]"

I should say, the first time I read this poem, I thought Issa was in "grouchy old man" mode, bemoaning the noisy, shouty kids disturbing his peace.