Mark Twain on Religion
"I confined public religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday-schools, permitting nothing of it in my other educational buildings....
Ulanova at Forty-Six at Last Dances Before a Camera Giselle
Many ways to dance Giselle, but tonight as you watch you think that she is what art is, creature who remembers her every gesture and...
Diary of Alice James
Alice James was the sister of William and Henry James. She was a brilliant, engaging person who was afflicted by vaguely diagnosed...
David Brooks on Culture
"Once you adopt binary thinking in which people are categorized as good or evil, once you give random people the power to destroy lives...
On Irony
" If you turned your back on irony, it curdles into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul."...
Mary Oliver
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? from "The Summer Day"
Holding Time
"Shakespeare brought to his poetry not just a lifetime, but all the time there was!" Journey Through Poetry by Jean Burton "A living...