Dr. Mark Canada will email you on Saturdays with a column on the world of ideas, especially literature and history. The newsletter will also include details about upcoming events and publications.
Perhaps no one gives more thought to love than artists, from poets to modern musicians. Some of them have given us a way to think about love as something transcendent.
In last week's column, I reflected on the value of quotations and shared some from the "Words" board I kept outside my dorm room when I was a resident assistant at Indiana University. This week, we will take a look at some specific lines and consider what we might draw from them. It's not as well known these days, I suspect, but I remember a book called Bartlett's Familiar Quotations . John Bartlett was not a professor or esteemed writer, but rather a bookseller in Cambridg
The Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, working behind the scenes of American history, played an important role by simply doing their jobs well. We can do the same.
