3 bits from the Hive Mind

Being wise cannot be hidden the same as being simpleminded. Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess’d at, Wh...

by Hermann Hesse Born in the German Empire, when the Germans  had no empire, Hesse didn't win the 1946  Nobel Prize in Literature fo...

Copyright © 2007 by  Natasha Trethewey , who was twice named Poet Laureate of the United States of America , serving that duty from 2012 to...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1807 - d. 1882), Harvard professor and lifelong poet who experimented with many styles throughout his...

Out of the night that covers me,      Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be      For my unconquerable s...

The writers of this song explained that they were trying to describe the Soul of a typical California, that is, a slave under the spell of ...

Edward Estlin Cummings enjoying life at his Joy Farm in New Hampshire.  Only having seen the worst humanity had to offer was he able ...

Edward Estlin Cummings displayed an innocence in his eyes that he would never recover following his experience as an ambulance driv...

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou ...