Susan Sontag On The White Race
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the…
Teresita Fernández On Art
Teresita Fernández (May 12, 1968 -) Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the…
Victor Hugo On Thanksgiving
Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go.…
May Sarton On Being A Poet
May Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995) I am, I think, more of a poet..., if to be a poet means allowing life…
Jane Ebihara On The Last Kiss
A Kiss is still…an osculatory apposition of the orbicularis oris and levator labii muscles with posterior involvement of the sternocleidomastoids, commonly in a dexterous orientation.…
Maria Popova On Solitude And Loneliness
Maria Popova (July 28, 1984 -) There is, of course, a universe of difference between solitude and loneliness — two radically different interior orientations toward…
Oscar Wilde On Triviality
Oscar Fingal Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) We should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious…
