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Read Time < 1 mins A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly […]
A Noiseless Patient Spider – Walt Whitman Read More »
Read Time < 1 mins You’ve climbed the mountain. At its top, the mountain and the climbing stop. A peak is where the climber finds his biggest step is not mankind’s. Proud of your stamina and craft you stand there being photographed transfixed between nowhere-to-go and us who give you vertigo. Well, strike your tent and have your lunch
To The President Elect – Joseph Brodsky Read More »
Read Time < 1 mins You know, I try, when darkness falls, to estimate to some degree — by marking off the grief in miles — the distance now from you to me. And all the figures change to words: confusion, which begins at A, and hope, which starts at B, move towards a terminus (you) far away. Two
For School Children – Joseph Brodsky Read More »
Read Time < 1 mins A list of some observation. In a corner, it’s warm. A glance leaves an imprint on anything it’s dwelt on. Water is glass’s most public form. Man is more frightening than its skeleton. A nowhere winter evening with wine. A black porch resists an osier’s stiff assaults. Fixed on an elbow, the body bulks
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Read Time < 1 mins All the huskies are eaten. There is no space left in the diary, And the beads of quick words scatter over his spouse’s sepia-shaded face adding the date in question like a mole to her lovely cheek. Next, the snapshot of his sister. He doesn’t spare his kin: what’s been reached is the
A Polar Explorer – Joseph Brodsky Read More »
Read Time 18 mins (Full transcription) Napoleon Hill said number one, a leader needs unwavering courage. And I don’t know if I totally agree with the unwavering part of this or not, because sometimes our courage does waver a little, you know, bend but not break. You know, Courage mounts up. And then sometimes we have the doubts that
Blessed with success in 2024 – ‘Your how to do list’ – Jim Rohn Read More »
Read Time < 1 mins Twice I awoke this night, and went to the window. The street-lamps were a fragment of a sentence spoken in sleep, leading to nothing, like omission points, affording me no comfort and no cheer. I dreamt of you, with child, and now, having lived so many years apart from you, experienced my guilt, and
Love – Joseph Brodsky Read More »
Read Time < 1 mins Mr. Collins primes them on what to expect when they dine at Rosings. Lady Catherine likes to have the distinction of rank preserved. Sir William is awed by the grandeur, Maria Lucas almost frightened out of her senses and Elizabeth equal to the scene. Lady Catherine’s air was authoritative and self-important. Miss de Bourgh
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Chapter 29 Narrated Read More »
Read Time < 1 mins All his life he was building something, inventing something. Now, for a Cretan queen, an artificial heifer, so as to cuckold the king. Then a labyrinth, the time for the king himself, to hide from bewildered glances an unbearable offspring. Or a flying contraption, when the king figured himself so busy with new commissions.
Daedalus in Sicily – Joseph Brodsky Narrated Read More »
Read Time 8 mins Now, I want to get busy on the first couple of subjects for today, everybody, that’s okay, say I’m okay. Here’s the first subject that I’ve, I’ve found so interesting I want to share with you then I want to talk about personal development, the subject that I started listening to age 25 that
Let Success Find You – Jim Rohn Read More »
