Took Me Until About Halfway Through College Before I Realized “study” Means “play With The Material

Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

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1 year ago

text id: You will awaken me at dawn
And barefoot walk me to the door.
You won't forget me when I’m gone,
You will not see me anymore.

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And shielding you from wraths of cold
I’ll pray to our almighty God.
I won't forget you when you’re gone,
I will not see you anymore.

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A pond that’s hiding tears of water,
Manors of power, shrines of time.
I won't forget them when I’m gone.
I will not see them anymore.

text id: Not blinking, they tear from the wind,
Two brown cherries – despairing and gaunt.
It’s ill fortune - looking back at the door;
I will not see you anymore.

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Even if we return to Earth
As lives ago Hafiz had told,
Our pathways shall be crossed no more,
I will not see you anymore

text id: And they shall seem so meaningless –
The quarrels of our present selves
Against the quarrels of two souls,
Alive in flesh but livingless.

text id: Two phrases, escaping from here
Will ascend to their futile heights;
“I won’t forget you when I’m gone,
I will not see you anymore.”

"Saga (I won't forget you when I'm gone)", Andrei Voznesensky (translated by metamorphesque)

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3 years ago

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."

- Macbeth, Act I, Scene I

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3 years ago

Morning Star (Lucifer) // by Paul Fryer at Holy Trinity Church

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3 years ago

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1 year ago

from eileen by ottessa moshfegh

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3 years ago

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, while there is life, there is hope.

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2 months ago

Musings On Poetry Anne Sexton, Victoria Chang, Carl Sandburg, Carl Sandburg, Richard Blanco, Henrik Edoyan,

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3 years ago

Many relationships would be a lot healthier if we romanticized honest, open and direct communication instead of idealizing the idea of a partner who's intuitively in tune with your every need. You don't need someone who can read your mind, you just need someone who's willing to listen when you speak.

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"Every Now And Then A Man's Mind Is Stretched

"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched

by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks

back to its former dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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