The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.
Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.
I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment. Also, roughly around the time we were doing this fact-checking. And I never really understood why people think what nonfiction's job is to give them information as opposed to something else.
Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.
The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.
An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give us an experience - an experience of looking for something and then finding ourselves in a different place by the time we've finished our journey.
No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.
In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.
Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.