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FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ~ NO ONE IS SLEEPING IN THIS WORLD

Monique — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 08:07:08 +0000

Federico Garcia Lorca

“Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping in this world. No one, no one. I have said it before.”

Who was Federico Garcia Lorca?

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca; (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of ’27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature.

He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His body has never been found. (source wikipedia)

The Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca

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TOGETHER IN OUR ENDLESS SOLITUDE ~ PAUL ELUARD

Monique — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:21:02 +0000

A poem by Paul Eluard

“I cannot be known
Better than you know me

Your eyes in which we sleep
We together
Have made for my man’s gleam
A better fate than for the common nights

Your eyes in which I travel
Have given to signs along the roads
A meaning alien to the earth

In your eyes who reveal to us
Our endless solitude

Are no longer what they thought themselves to be

You cannot be known
Better than I know you.”

― Paul Éluard

A French Poet

Eugène Grindel (1895-1952), known as Paul Éluard, was a French poet who was dedicated to Dadaism and Surrealism. He was a great admirer of symbolist and avant-garde poets such as Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, and Guillaume Apollinaire. The woman you see in the photo is his second wife Nusch Eluard (1906-1946) She was a French performer, model and surrealist artist.

Surrealism by Surrealists

What do we know about Surrealism? Surrealists say true reality only comes from your subconscious. It is for this reason that over time concepts and techniques were developed allowing the artists to use the subconscious mind. They wanted to be able to learn and discover the depths of their brains.

Surrealism was most popular among painters because of its immediate and clear form of expression. In comparison to other forms of art including poetry and literature, it was much harder to be expressed. Surrealists believed in a structured clearly outlined process when expressing themselves. The aesthetics were not that important.

Of course, we can also find surrealism in the film industry, a great example of a Surreal movie is The Blood of a Poet (1932) directed by Jean Cocteau

According to Octavio Paz, (1914-1998) the Mexican writer and poet, “Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision”. Paz himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Picture by Man Ray

Photograph of Nusch and Paul Eluard made by the famous photographer Man Ray(1890-1976.) American painter, maker of Surrealist objects and photographer.

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LEONARD COHEN ~ A MEMOIR OF MELANCHOLY

Monique — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:09:43 +0000

Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016)

“Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.”

We mourn the passing of a Leonard Norman Cohen: Canadian Singer, Songwriter, Poet and Novelist. Cohen died today on the 11th of November 2016, at the age of 82. For many years, Leonard Cohen has been revealing his soul to the world through his poetry and songwriting. His profound and timeless words expressed through his poetical music have already touched 4 generations and will continue to do so for many to come.

When Cohen began writing poetry and novels his intellect became more abundantly present. Although for sure he will be remembered more for his songs he has written many beautiful books and poetry.
His bestseller “Book of Longing” contains a great collection of his poetry and drawings. It was published in 2006. Soon after the release Philip Glass composed modern classical music to the beautiful poetic lyrics. Glass and Cohen have been performing together and also recorded a CD that might still be available.

Other novels include “The Favorite Game” and “Beautiful Losers”. Some of his most elegant published poetry is “Let Us Compare Mythologies” and “The Spice-Box of Earth”. I personally think the mystery he added to the words in his songs is what makes his music attractive to people. You never get bored listening to it.

“Cohen is a master of the quasi-surrealistic phrase, of the ‘illogical’ line that speaks so directly to the unconscious that surface ambiguity is transformed into ultimate, if fleeting, comprehension: comprehension of the bewitching nuances of sex and bewildering assaults of culture,” author Tom Robbins wrote in the booklet of “Tower of Song,” a 1996 tribute album.

As a singer-songwriter, he had a literary sensibility that made him a popular artist. The older he got the happier he become which led him to say: “ … That background of distress dissolved. I’m worried now that my songs are too cheerful because I’m feeling well. I think I may be irrelevant pretty soon.” In the end, he didn’t… He will stay with us for a long time….

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THOMAS HARDY ~ SOMETHING WITHIN US…

Monique — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:59:43 +0000

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. (Wikipedia)

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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ~ DREAMS

Monique — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:50:46 +0000

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Émile Constant Puyo
Sommeil
ca. 1887

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WILLIAM BLAKE ~ ON IMAGINATION

Monique — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:11:51 +0000

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827)
Hecate or the Three Fates
Watercolor and pen and black ink
1795

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ANNA AKHMATOVA ~ SILENT WORDS

Monique — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:31:08 +0000

”The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.”

Anna Akhmatova ((23 June 1889 – 5 March 1966 / Odessa)

www.moniquespassions.com

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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ~ OCTOBER

Monique — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:40:35 +0000

OCTOBER

Crack your first nut and light your first fire;

Roast your first chestnut crisp on the bar;

Make the logs sparkle, stir the blaze higher,

Logs are cheery as sun or as star,

Logs we can find wherever we are.

Spring one soft day will open the leaves,

Spring one bright day will lure back the flowers;

Never fancy my whistling wind grieves,

Never fancy I’ve tears in my showers;

Dance, nights and days! And dance on, my hours!

Christina Rossetti,

from The Months: A Pageant.

Painting: Autumn Leaves

Sir John Everett Millais – 1855-1856

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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ~ EVENING

Monique — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:31:27 +0000

Evening

Jakub Schikaneder – circa 1900

“I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,

The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,

The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily,

And the moon rise and turn them silver.

I shall see

The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;

And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,

I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,

And build me stately palaces by candlelight.”

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

Nikolai Pimonenko, Evening

1900

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SYLVIA PLATH ~ LONELINESS

Monique — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 19:14:20 +0000

“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Alone

Emilio Longoni – 1900

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