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Selections for this episode are read in the following order:

Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

Wang Wei (Tang Dynasty)

Eino Leino

Kahlil Gibran, “The Prophet”

Fyodor Tyutchev, “Silentium!”

Nguyễn Du, “The Tale of Kiều”

Kabir

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Essays: Second Series”

Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

Vincent van Gogh

John Keats, “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket”

Buddha

Pythagoras

Whakataukī Proverb

John Muir, “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”

Aristotle

Lord Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”

Anne Frank, “Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl”

Rainer Maria Rilke, “Book of Hours”

William Blake, “The Letters of William Blake”

Thomas Pringle, "Afar in the Desert"

Mihai Eminescu, "Evening Star"

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, “Rimas”