Literature · Reflection
JEAN COCTEAU ~ MOMENT IN TIME
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922
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Poetry · Reflection
SYLVIA PLATH ~ ON POETRY
“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.” Sylvia Plath
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Art · Reflection
VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE THRUTH
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top” Virginia Woolf
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Art · Reflection
GABRIEL FAURE ~ ON MUSIC
“To me…music exists to elevate us as far as possible above everyday life.” ~Gabriel Faure
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Literature · Reflection
ELIZABETH BOWEN ~ ON PROBLEMS
” —It appears to me that problems— loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.” Elisabeth Bowen 1899-1973 writer
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Literature · Reflection
IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE…
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others…Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden out
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Poetry · Reflection
ANNE SEXTON ~ POET OF THE SOUL
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” Anne Sexton
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Literature · Reflection
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER ~ ON CREATING
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Literature · Reflection
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ~ ON LIFE
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
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Poetry · Reflection
MUSICAL DREAM OF PASSION ~ POEM BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
Dancing, dancing the tango With you my love As if we are the only ones Dancing in this world We both feel this passionate love of ours Bodies close together While we are turning and moving around Listening to these bittersweet words Of pain and despair Please let the music contin
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Literature · Essay
… SICK OF BEING A MAN ~ BY VICTOR M. ALONSO
Borges said that “beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel in the whole body”; and must be so. The feelings impact us in the solar plexus, the heart, the chest. Now I do not intend to enter into the eternal dispute about the ideal of beauty, I always imagined that it is
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