12 Commandments: Craft Polish Edition, Part 1
Ruben’s 12 Commandments framework serves as a list of principles to live by.
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Five thoughts on the city of Paris.
Read MoreLanguage Devices: The Rule of Three
The device is employed to have a reinforcing effect on the receiver.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Herman Melville
Melville’s simple expository style offers a pointed and poetic line: the observed human truth.
Read More'Use Your Words'
The phrase is an instructive call to action.
Read More'Grief is the price we pay for love'
The phrase suggests grief and love as the greatest loss and gain of life, bound up together.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman’s ‘O Me! O Life!’ is a celebration of human being and potential.
Read MoreSustine et Abstine: The Stoic Maxim
The phrase ‘bear and forbear’ calls for the Stoic to endure the trials of life with self-command.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Alexandre Dumas
True freedom is believing what is truly right, will be.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Rudyard Kipling
Kipling suggests the ideal mindset of a champion.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Sylvia Plath
Plath imagines female choice as a fig tree.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Antony and Cleopatra
As Shakespeare reimagined, in refusing to be mastered, Cleopatra mastered herself.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë captures the wondrous transience of the bluebell.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Hamlet
The phrase ‘To be, or not to be’ combines devices to pose the quintessential, existential question.
Read MoreGreat Lines: William Carlos Williams
‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ comprises a mere four lines which carry a weight of meaning.
Read MoreGreat Lines: TS Eliot
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is 100 years old—and oddly relevant still, in our perplexing post-industrial age.
Read More'Spring Tiredness': It's a Thing
The spring is commonly known to elicit a lethargic and even melancholic response, as the German word articulates.
Read MoreMore Great Lines: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth personifies daffodils as a ‘golden’, ‘dancing’ multitude.
Read MoreGreat Lines: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned (1922) prefigures the grand, flowing movements of the Gatsby narrative.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Ted Hughes
A small, white, mighty sign that life begins again.
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