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ANAIS NIN ~ ON LOVE

Art · Reflection

ANAIS NIN ~ ON LOVE

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing.” Anais Nin

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KANDINSKY ~ ON ABSTRACT ART

Art · Reflection

KANDINSKY ~ ON ABSTRACT ART

“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with ‘reality,’ next to the ‘real’ world.” Wassily Kandinksy 1866-1944

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FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ~ THE POETRY OF SKYSCRAPERS

Poetry · Reflection

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ~ THE POETRY OF SKYSCRAPERS

“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain’s tresses and shine

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DEAD POET'S SOCIETY ~ THE NEED OF POETRY

Poetry · Reflection

DEAD POET'S SOCIETY ~ THE NEED OF POETRY

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, ro

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DEAD POET’S SOCIETY ~ THE NEED OF POETRY

Poetry · Reflection

DEAD POET’S SOCIETY ~ THE NEED OF POETRY

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, ro

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EDWARD STEICHEN ~ PHOTOGRAPHER OF MYSTERY

Art · Reflection

EDWARD STEICHEN ~ PHOTOGRAPHER OF MYSTERY

EDWARD STEICHEN (b Luxembourg, 27 March 1879; d West Redding, CT, 25 March 1973). American photographer, painter, designer and curator of Luxembourgeois birth. Steichen emigrated to the USA in 1881 and grew up in Hancock, MI, and Milwaukee, WI. His formal schooling ended when he

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