“A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.” Source: Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration [ … ]

  The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. Source: The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity [ … ]

  “Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.” Source: Naomi Shihab Nye’s Beloved [ … ]

  On the lifelong art of feeling worthy of wanting and worthy of receiving. Source: Our Greatest Misunderstanding About Love: Philosopher-Psychiatrist Esther Perel on Modern Loneliness as Ambiguous Loss and [ … ]

  “Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, [ … ]

    Source: The decades-old classic is suddenly the ultimate pandemic poem, Jeanette WInterson on how storytelling transforms us, a love story of science –

“The very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.” Source: Loops, the Limits of Language, the [ … ]

President decides against relocating remains of French poet to Parisian memorial Source: Rimbaud’s remains will not be moved to Panthéon, rules Macron | France | The Guardian

Gallery puts seldom-seen Divine Comedy sketches on display online to mark 700 years since poet’s death Source: Italy begins year of Dante anniversary events with virtual Uffizi exhibition | Italy [ … ]

“If equal affection cannot be, / Let the more loving one be me.” Source: The More Loving One: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads W.H. Auden’s Sublime Ode to Our Unrequited Love [ … ]

Writer Mark Dunbar recounts his trip to the new location of the museum dedicated to “playful novelist and sneakily sincere humanist” Kurt Vonnegut. Source: A Visit to the New Vonnegut [ … ]

Women writers are overpraised for our appearance, underpraised for our work Source: I told all the men at a speed dating event I was a writer. Unanimous disappointment

The prison where writer was incarcerated is of ‘symbolic importance’ to LGBTQ community Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol: Wilde enthusiasts lead campaign to save site

Five UK artists, illustrators, graphic designers and photographers have put their twists on some of the playwright’s famous works. Source: William Shakespeare gets a digital make-over for the ‘Instagram Generation’ [ … ]