<p>"A poet is, above all else, passionately in love with language." --W.H. Auden</p>
<p>I basically disected it and wrote a poem with various layers of meaning connected to the quotation, most prominently about language and constructing poetry. I reaaaaaaaally hope that they get it, because if they don't I am completely, utterly screwed. But I figured it's a long shot anyway, so WHY NOT. :P</p>
<p>"All your base are belong to us."</p>
<p>honestly.</p>
<p>" There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you."</p>
<p>I love it, vadox! If you don't mind sharing, what was the overall theme of your essay?</p>
<p>Mr. Tubbz -- interesting point. May I ask what you think of the children's book "The Rainbow Fish"? If you haven't read it, take a look on Amazon...</p>
<p>vadox you're my hero</p>
<p>Someone I know got in using, "Less is more." as the entire essay. He was accepted. Of course, his credentials and other essays were quite impressive.</p>
<p>Buddhist tradition attributes their "Four Noble Truths" to Siddhartha Gautama [the Buddhitsava]. I used part of it:
"In all life there is suffering, and all suffering is caused by attachment."
I would have dearly liked Paseur's enthusiasm quote, but unfortunately it did not shape me so the Buddhist one is much more "me-ish."</p>
<p>"Everything is relative"
-Chapo.</p>
<p>pd: chapo is my classmate :-)</p>
<p>"would you believe it ariadne? the minotaur scarcely defended itself"
Borges =)
p.s. qihqi i loved yours</p>
<p>Acadec, I like yours :)</p>
<p>I did the Nation's Service one...pretty traditional essay, since my other one is the groundbreaking "hook" one.</p>
<p>“There are at least two ways to do anything” – L. E. Modesitt</p>
<p>Essay about how my two favorite activities (which are very different) are actually very similar in my mind.</p>
<p>"The happiness of being with people." - Franz Kafka</p>
<p>It is simple, resonant, and existential :)</p>
<p>But I also related to Princeton's "in the nation's service" to my essay topic.</p>
<p>There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the
guillotine.
-P.G. Wodehouse</p>
<p>I wrote on my prematurely gray hair.</p>
<p>Are you contemplating suicide, or something grander like...martyrdom? ;)</p>
<p>Mr. Tubbz: I love that quote! What did you write about?</p>
<p>I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way things I had no words for. Georgia OKeefe (1887-1986), American artist</p>
<p>I wrote about how I used to be conformist as a child until I heard those words.</p>
<p>"Well-behaved women rarely make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich </p>
<p>Girl Power!</p>