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"How Poems End" with Billy Collins - the Academy for Teachers

By Billy Collins — 2020

Explore an approach to reading poetry that isn’t concerned so much with a poem’s meaning as it is with how a poem finds its way through itself, sometimes changing direction, sometimes pausing by the roadside, but especially with how a poem finds a way to conclude.

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Mastering Self-Control | Stoic Exercises for Inner Peace

The Stoics bring forth the theme of self-control on a regular basis. Epictetus, for example, spoke about abstaining from talking about vulgar things, and Marcus Aurelius points out that we should set limits to comfort and consumption.

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