stuff your eyes with wonder

stuff your eyes with wonder
Laura * Argentina

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Now reading:
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

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Theme Urban, by Max davis.

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Walt Whitman’s handwritten poem “As of Forms”. The poem reads:
Their genesis, all genesis, They lost, all lost — for they include all. The earth and everything in it. The wave, the snake, the babe, the landscape, the human head, Things, faces, reminiscences, presences, conditions, thoughts — tally and make definite a divine indistinct spiritual delight in the Soul.
Of the arts, as music, poems, architecture, outlines, and the rest, they are in their way to provoke this delight out of the soul, They are to seek it where it waits —for I see that it always patiently waits. Have you sought the inkling ? Have you wandered after the meanings of the earth? You need not wander; Behold those forms.

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John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne in which he writes: “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”

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4 April 2013
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s letter to Walt Whitman about Leaves of Grass.

“I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of “Leaves Of Grass.” I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy.”

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Mary Shelley’s handwritten poem “Absence”, on the death of her husband. The poem reads:
Ah! he is gone — and I alone;How dark and dreary seems the time!‘Tis Thus, when the glad sun is flown,Night rushes o’er the Indian clime.Is there no star to cheer this nightNo soothing twilight for the breast?Yes, Memory sheds her fairy light,Pleasing as sunset’s golden west.And hope of dawn — Oh! brighter farThan clouds that in the orient burn;More welcome than the morning starIs the dear thought — he will return!

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Harper Lee addresses the question about where her novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set.

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Dylan Thomas’s original manuscript page of the poem “In the White Giant’s Thigh.”

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24 January 2013
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Edith Wharton’s original manuscript pages of The Age of Innocence

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2 January 2013
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John Keats’ original manuscript pages of Ode to a Nightingale.

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28 November 2012
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Mark Twain’s handwritten manuscript pages of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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6 November 2012
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Edgar Allan Poe’s early manuscript containing quotations of lines from twelve of Shakespeare’s plays including King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest.

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Bob Dylan’s original manuscript for “The Times They Are a-Changin’”

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24 July 2012
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Oscar Wilde’s handwritten manuscript pages of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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3 July 2012
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Franz Kafka’s handwritten manuscript pages of The Trial

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Walt Whitman’s corrected reprint of O Captain, My Captain!