When you live in a rapidly moving swirl, you can only view your surroundings with a glance. Poetry requires us to slow down, to take time to pause.
— Naomi Shihab Nye, Academy of American Poets Chancellor
I am in here.
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When you live in a rapidly moving swirl, you can only view your surroundings with a glance. Poetry requires us to slow down, to take time to pause.
— Naomi Shihab Nye, Academy of American Poets Chancellor
When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.
Paul Kalanithi via Before I Go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and time – The Washington Post.