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"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Hemingway

"Story is what stirs us, terrifies us, breaks our heart."
Loehr

Poetry

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"To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart."
Aberihani

Native American Literature

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"It does not require many words to speak the truth."

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce


William Shakespeare

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"O none, unless this miracle have might:
That in black ink my love may still shine bright."
Shakespeare

Greek Mythology

  • BBC Ancient Greece
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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."
Joseph Campbell

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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
James Joyce

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