Today’s Excerpt:

See if you can memorize this line from the French poet Rainer Maria Rilke:

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back.”

Here are some tips:

1. Read the line three times out loud.
2. Ask one person to say the first word, another to say the second word, and so on.
3. Invite each person to write the line from memory, seeing who gets it closest.