Henry David Thoreau
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Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.
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Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.
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The most fortifying experiences in nature are often found in lonely, transitional zones. But what is the reality of these threshold places?
