I’ve been reflecting on my quest to select ten works of poetry that I consider the most important.
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Happy Easter

“Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
Man of La mancha, 1972
When Milan Kundera commented on the novel, he said that it teaches us to see the world as a question (Philip Roth, Shop Talk, p.100). For Don Quixote, the world unfolded like a mystery. And I think that’s what I like to somehow preserve and wish for as well.
Happy Easter. Full of the joy of the new, the freshly born or about to bloom and the joy of discovery, the joy of asking questions and not always seeing things as they are but what they could be. The joy of hope. The joy of dreams. A sense of wonder.
Bookstagram and books
I read 62 books in 2019 and 51 in 2020. I focus more on instagram these days but I might return to writing longer pieces some day so I am keeping the handle. Happy reading!
Personal little islands of knowledge
This is a post I imported from another site, published in March 2018, under a different title – Why collecting may help me stay motivated.
I’m a fan of collecting things. In a world where we are increasingly flooded by information, often interesting, it is important to curate your own selections as far as I’m concerned. I like to collect things of interest to me. Keep them. Not all. Have to be selective. But collecting also has this social dimension – for sharing and connecting.
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