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⬅ Why Read Poetry?
Managing Our Insignificance ➡

The soul that is rightly to be called great is the soul that can bear a life of hardship without fleeing from it.”

St. Augustine
City of God: Books 1-10 (New City Press, 2012), 24
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⬅ Why Read Poetry?
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  • The love of God is the essential task of every moment of our lives. Loving God and working out our salvation with fear and trembling is hardly a task for which we must await payment. If a man labors out of love for God, he does not have to wait anxiously to see if his work will pay off. His work is paying off as he does it. If the field he has planted is destroyed by drought, or if the house he has built collapses, the man who has labored for the love of God will never look back on his years of labor and sigh over a meaningless life. The love of God is the meaning of his life. The point of planting the field was not planting the field. The point of building the house was not building the house. The point of eating the Eucharist is not to quell hunger. The field is planted so a man might know God in the planting." Joshua Gibbs
  • In order to foster a Christian imagination, we don't need to invent; we need to remember." smith_imagination James K.A. Smith
  • There is little doubt that education's unofficial currency is love. To be more precise, its mission is to educe a love of the world--the kind of love without which there could be no world at all." Robert Pogue Harrison
  • The constant, obvious flattery, contrary to all evidence, of the people around him had brought him to the point that he no longer saw his contradictions, no longer conformed his actions and words to reality, logic, or even simple common sense, but was fully convinced that all his orders, however senseless, unjust, and inconsistent with each other, became sensible, just, and consistent with each other only because he gave them." Leo Tolstoy
  • On your exceedingly great mercy rests all my hope. Give what you command, and then command whatever you will. You order us to practice continence. A certain writer tells us, 'I knew that no one can be continent except by God's gift, and that it is already a mark of wisdom to recognize whose gift this is' (Wisdom 8:21). By continence the scattered elements of the self are collected and brought back into the unity from which we have slid away into dispersion; for anyone who loves something else along with you, but does not love it for your sake, loves you less. O Love, ever burning, never extinguished, O Charity, my God, set me on fire! You command continence: give what you command, and then command whatever you will" (X.40, emphasis added). St. Augustine
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selfieI am a classical, Christian humanities teacher, an avid reader, the husband of one, and a father of four.

I write about how reading great books transforms us, clarifies our vision of the world, and helps us focus on what truly matters in this life.

My writing helps dedicated readers read with more skill and purpose so their reading can shape their imaginations, hearts, minds, and souls in lasting ways.

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