Poetry · Reflection
HANNAH ARENDT ~ ON POETRY
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it. Hannah Arendt
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Poetry · Essay
TERESA WILMS MONTT ~ “TO DIE, AFTER FEELING EVERYTHING AND BEING NOTHING…”
TERESA WILMS MONTT POET FROM CHILE (Viña del Mar, 1893 – París 1921): She was born in a wealthy family, daughter of Federico Guillermo Wilms Montt and Brieba, and his wife Luz Victoria Montt and Montt. Given the social context of that time, her primary instruction was given to he
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Literature · Reflection
VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ A FAREWELL
“I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness
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Art · Reflection
ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.. his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
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Poetry · Reflection
EMILY DICKINSON ~ HOPE
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, … And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And
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Art · Reflection
RALPH WALDO EMERSON ~ ON MAGIC
“Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON Painting “Study for the Magic Circle” John Willem Waterhouse
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Art · Reflection
IMMOGEN CUNNINGHAM ~ PORTRAIT OF MARTHA
Portrait of Martha Graham (1931) Immogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 24, 1976) was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.
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Poetry · Reflection
FEELING OF IMMORTALITY ~ POEM BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
FEELING OF IMMORTALITY Please stop, I need silence inside Be quiet, there is so much noise No longer is it possible to live Words are floating away from me Dragged along with the ocean tide My body and soul are kept in piece While walking along this seashore Feelings are drawn aw
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Poetry · Reflection
EMILY DICKINSON ~ THE SPLITTING OF THE BRAIN
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind… as if my Brain has split.. I tried to match it – Seam by Seam – But could not make it fit. Emily Dickinson
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Literature · Reflection
ANAIS NIN ~ ON HAPPINESS
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i will never know happiness. for I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.” Anais Nin Photo Irving Penn, Anais Nin (1971)
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Art · Reflection
ODILON REDON ~ THE MISTY OUTLINE OF A HUMAN FORM
“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” Unknown Pa
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Art · Reflection
THE MANY FACES OF BENJAMIN FONDANE
The Many Faces of Fondane: Man Ray made a photographic portrait of Fondane with two heads (right) but Victor Brauner’s oil portrait has Fondane as a beheaded Holofernes. Benjamin Fondane was a Poet, Critic and Filmmaker Fondane (born Benjamin Wechsler in 1898, and murdered in Aus
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