When critics listen to music they can also sometimes hear what the musicians are trying to do.

Assignment for an aesthetics course: write a set of instructions, 2 pp., titled 'How to read a poem out loud—and why'.

What makes us think that philosophy must be a kind of work?

Snow.

Diurnalizing poetry?

Common places: the store, the office, the corner, the kitchen, the street.

'In my poetry a rhyme / Would seem to me almost insolent'

'… it is the common thing which is annonymously about us.'

In the really spectacular witness-stand breakdowns, defendants aren't just caught in lies or betrayed by their irrepressible passions, they're provoked to outpourings of murderous defiance.