Wislawa Szymborska, From "Funeral," Featured In View With A Grain Of Sand: Selected Poems

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne written c. July 1820, featured in Selected Letters

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late,"

likes your post so you see me in your notes and want to kiss me

Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.