Part 9 of series: Hollywood and Higher Education: Teaching Worldview Thru the Stories We Live By “No matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” -Mr. Keating (Robin Williams) by Gary David Stratton The main characters of…
Bungee-Jumping to Eternity: The Existential Angst of Dead Poets Society
Part of ongoing series: Hollywood and Higher Education: Teaching Worldview Thru the Stories We Live By “Carpe Diem! Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” -Mr. Keating (Robin Williams) by Gary David Stratton Dead Poets Society, 1989 Oscar winner…
Wendell Berry on How to Be a Poet and a Complete Human Being, by Maria Popova
Any readers
who like your poems,
doubt their judgment.
T. S. Eliot on Idea Incubation, Inhibition, and the Mystical Quality of Creativity + a Rare Recording
by Maria Popova “We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.” Poet, playwright, and cultural critic T. S. Eliot was born 124 years ago Sept. 26th. In this passage from The Use of Poetry and…