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“Lawrence is usually the first poet kids read in schools that they really like. It's a real turn-on for them.”

“He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle — a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed.”

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“During the '70s, when the Cold War was still on, we invited Voznesensky and Yevtushenko to come here. We had very large readings for them. It was a way of kind of culturally thawing the Cold War.”

“The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.”

“We have one called Commodity Aesthetics, which is our section on popular culture.”

Resonant Thoughts

"No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of t…"

— Dean Koontz

Literature1945

#love

"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the tru…"

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy1788–1860

#time

"The behavior of two individuals, consisting of effort which results in output, is considered to be determined by a satisfaction function which depends on remuneration and on the effort expended. The t…"

— Anatol Rapoport

Mathematics1911–2007

#leadership