Malcolm Gladwell says lyric poetry isn't only a young person's game. Just look at the First XI.
'T. S. Eliot’s 'Prufrock', Robert Lowell’s 'Skunk Hour', Robert Frost’s 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', 'William Carlos Williams’s 'Red Wheelbarrow', Elizabeth Bishop’s 'The Fish', Ezra Pound’s 'The River Merchant’s Wife', Sylvia Plath’s 'Daddy', Pound’s 'In a Station of the Metro', Frost’s 'Mending Wall', Wallace Stevens’s 'The Snow Man', and Williams’s 'The Dance'. Those eleven were composed at the ages of 23, 41, 48, 40, 29, 30, 30, 28, 38, 42, and 59, respectively.'
Earth wouldn’t have ice caps without eroding rocks and quiet volcanoes
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Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of
the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes
form
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