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Every once in the bluest moon, if you are lucky, you encounter someone with such powerful and generous light in […]

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature writer Henry Beston

Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We

“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up,” John Steinbeck

“The mind is its own place,” Milton wrote in Paradise Lost, “and in it self can make a Heav’n of

“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” wrote Whitman, who called himself a kosmos and believed of

At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of interdependent growth, undergirded

I remember singing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” in the choir of the Bulgarian Math Academy as a child. I remember

Seven years after the improbable idea of cross-pollinating poetry and science came abloom on a Brooklyn stage in a former