"Classes have been a time for exploring what it is to be alive – a time for culture to live as we taste texts from ancient to modern as though for the first time.

Horst Kornberger has inspired us all with his wide knowledge of literature throughout civilization and time. But his real genius is an ability to inspire a sense of wonder. Through developing reverence for the word, class members have become inadvertent magicians...

With the development of wonder and the encouragement of writers from across the ages (as well as Horst and fellow-adventurers) creativity has flowed. I have been astonished by what unexpected bouquets have been plucked from pens, what doves have burst forth and flown.

For anyone who loves the written word and would like to write more, I have nothing but praise for this course. Working the Word has been an enlivening, joyful, and healing experience."