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Ryan Berger
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"All poems teach lessons in how to be young, especially to the young, who are young but don't know how to love it."
— Apr 25, 2023 08:08PM
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Ryan Berger
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"The Great Cities of the world are not provincial; they invite complexity, not propaganda. New York, Venice, Paris or Prague exist in literature as exemplary occasions for meditation. They invite bitterness as well as joy, comedy as much as indictment."
His 1995 essay is one of the best things I've ever read about the city and best highlights what a contradiction it is.
The most fascinating city on Earth.
— Apr 21, 2023 09:21PM
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His 1995 essay is one of the best things I've ever read about the city and best highlights what a contradiction it is.
The most fascinating city on Earth.
Ryan Berger
is on page 135 of 288
"John Keats was an English Romantic for whom water was the medium of oblivion. He understood with melancholy precision the awesome power of our original matrix. Americans, however, are optimists. We are a nation of engineers, not poets, and are baffled when nature mocks our engineering."
— Apr 19, 2023 06:40PM
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