If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. - Mary Oliver - Mary Oliver was born and raised in Maple Hills Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. She would retreat from the austere home to the nearby forest, where she would build huts of sticks and grass and write poetry. Mary Oliver Oliver's poetry is firmly rooted in tradition of place and romantic nature, and emphasizes the silence of nature. Her fifth book, American Primitive (1983), won the Pulitzer Prize and won numerous awards including the National Book Award and the Lannon Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1986, she was named one of America's Best Poets. ...
AN ADVENTURE IN PHILOSOPHY THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Sophie's World is the most famous book written by Jostein Gaarder as a novel about the history of philosophy. This book of his who lived in Norway was the best selling novel in the world in 1995. Due to the content of this book, it is also used as a text book on philosophy by undergraduate students studying philosophy in universities. Reading this book has given me a better understanding of complex philosophical systems beyond boring exegesis. Jostein Gaarder "Once upon a time, about 1500 billion years ago, all the materials in the universe were combined in a relatively small area. The material was so dense that it had a very high temperature due to its gravity. Finally, it exploded when it got so hot and hard. We are here. The explosion is called the Big Bang. Due to this big explosion, all the materials in the universe were thrown away. When they gradually cooled, the stars, galaxies, moons, planets formed. But the uni...