Madeleine ThienI wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?
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Who among us does not sometimes wonder what it would be like to memorize the entire poem, or even the entire works of Shakespeare? And who among us does not wish that we could do that? The poet Pablo Neruda said “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Source: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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