Poetry · Reflection
MAGRITTE ~ ON POETRY
“Written poetry is invisible. Painted poetry has a visible appearance.” Rene Magritte
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Poetry · Essay
ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK ~ MELANCHOLIC POET
“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous rhythm of a cataract, on the inside is the exhausted adagio of drops of water falling from time to tired time. For this reason the outside
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Art · Reflection
SHAW ~ ON DREAMS AND REALITY
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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Art · Reflection
GUSTAV MOREAU ~ THE WORLD
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream. Gustav Moreau The Sphinx, 1886
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Literature · Reflection
EINSTEIN ~ ON PERSONALITY
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” Albert Einstein
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Art · Reflection
MODIGLIANI ~ ON THE UNCONSCIOUS
“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.” Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920
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Literature · Reflection
KONSTANTIN PAUSTOVSKY ~ DREAMING
“If we deprive the man of his ability to dream, one of the greatest motives that drives culture, arts, science and desire to fight for the beautiful future will fall aways.” Konstantin Paustovsky
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Art · Reflection
CAMILLE CLAUDEL ~ LETTER TO RODIN
“I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don’t deceive me with other women any more” Camille Claudel , French sculptor 1864 – 1943 She was the lover and muse of Auguste Rodin.
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Art · Reflection
MIRO ~ ON COLORS
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Miro
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Poetry · Reflection
JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON BEING A POET
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau
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Literature · Reflection
DOROTHY PARKER ~ ON AUTHORS AND ACTORS
“Authors and actors and artists and such – Never know nothing, and never know much” Dorothy Parker
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Art · Reflection
ANAIS NIN ~ POETICAL HAPPINESS
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” Anais Nin
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