I often think of Auden's poem "The Horatians": "We can only / do what it seems to us we were made for, look at / this world with a happy eye / but from a sober perspective.” That's my ambition, and controlling my attention helps me to draw closer to it.
Alan Jacobs, in thought-provoking post on reflecting and sharing
The UK spends £68m a year on Pringles, and £6.8m on poetry. Our only solution is to start writing poems on crisps. #NationalPoetryDay pic.twitter.com/ktDu7KtATl
— Colin Dardis (@purelypoetry) September 28, 2017
On this day in 1915 Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" was first published in the Atlantic Monthly. pic.twitter.com/XUMBrHArsM
— Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) August 1, 2016
Hear Robert Frost Read His Most Famous Poems: “The Road Not Taken” & More https://t.co/3LfK3Ckdt2 pic.twitter.com/QZmQD5VuYi
— Open Culture (@openculture) May 17, 2016
