[…] her mother was homeschooling her via the Internet (basically, Wikipediaing the Important Facts from the History of the World, and ordering appropriate-level math textbooks from Amazon) […]

The bucket under the leaky roof needs frequent emptyings.

An enlightened mind does not need external authority.

Whether by means large or small, noticed or almost imperceptible, poetry's startlements displace the existing self with a changed one.