Literature · Reflection
VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ BEING A WOMAN
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf
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Literature · Reflection
MARCEL PROUST ~ ON FREEDOM
“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” Marcel Proust 1871-1922
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Art · Reflection
PIET MONDRIAAN ~ EVOLUTION
“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.” anonymus “
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Art · Reflection
VICTOR BRAUNER ~ PAINTER OF THE SURREAL
Title unknown Painter is Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian Jewish painter of surrealistic images. I post this painting simple because I love it and because not so many people know the works of Victor Brauner.
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Reflections · Essay
OBLIVION ~ POEM BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
Being deserted, feeling all alone There is just this huge emptiness Looking for some kind of escape When I let myself go I feel heavy Deceiving myself in this way Nothing really matters anymore Feeling just a sense of lost Despair has passed and there is a way out Do not want to
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Literature · Reflection
WYNDHAM LEWIS ~ THE DEVIL
“He must get his mouth on hers; he must revel in the laugh, where it grew. She was Nefaste. She was in fact evidently ‘the Devil’.” Wyndham Lewis Canadian 1882-1957
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Poetry · Reflection
WANTING TO CONFIRM ~ POEM BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
Yes I do, no I don’t This is driving me insane What is and what is not true Recently anchored on this chain This chain of metal One made of heavy steel But it wont have time to settle No longer matters what I feel When I stare into your glares Emotions start to flow
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Art · Essay
EDWARD STEICHEN ~ PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE MYSTERIOUS
Anna May Wong, photo taken by Edward Steichen Anna May Wong, 1931 by Edward Steichen Edward Steichen, Self Portrait Edward J. Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured
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Art · Reflection
MILLAIS ~ ON MATURITY
“My maturity has not fulfilled the hopes and ambitions of my youth.” John Everett Millais
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Poetry · Reflection
THE DREAM ~ BORIS PASTERNAK
I dreamt of autumn in the window’s twilight, And you, a tipsy jesters’ throng amidst. ‘ And like a falcon, having stooped to slaughter, My heart returned to settle on your wrist. But time went on, grew old and deaf. Like thawing Soft ice old silk decayed on easy chairs. A bloated
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Poetry · Reflection
FAREWELL ~ A POEM BY KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN
Farewell The dream seems lost… A hug And then Maybe it is time I will go back to the shore Where I can throw sand into the sea Watch the singing waves From them comes the future And the dream Is still far From being lost Countless moments in the water Silhouettes in blue Where
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Art · Essay
EDGAR ALLAN POE ~ DREAMLAND
DREAMLAND By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule- From a wild clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE- out of TIME. Bottomless vale
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