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The Element Book of Mystical Verse
Covering the poetic ground, so to speak, from the Vedas through Stevie Smith, this is a book that I picked up on a discount rack at Barnes and Noble about a year ago. Recently, I dug it off the shelf, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, books, history, mysticism, poems, reviews, spirituality, The Element Book of Mystical Verse
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Two Poets Lament, Part II
Perhaps the world is full of verse that fails, inspiring none to act as heroes should; and in frustration, lesser poets rail against the confine and form of the good, their self-aggrandized talents gone to waste that they alone lament … Continue reading
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Tagged art, communication, failure, hubris, misunderstanding, poetry, purpose, WB Yeats, words
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de Toqueville on Poetry and Democracy
Here is a little food for thought (bold and italics, mine): Democratic poets will always appear trivial and frigid if they seek to invest gods, demons, or angels with corporeal forms, and if they attempt to draw them down from … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Toqueville, art, creativity, democracy, Democracy in America, individuality, poetry, utilitarianism
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Dada
Art for art’s sake? Some mad Protestant Hell: give glory to gods too quick dethroned, the crowds that crowned them discharged early and now gone home, their purpose found too soon, before they grew strong. Without any message, pure art, … Continue reading
The School of Osmosis
OK, so I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about knowledge, its accumulation, and how application of that acquired or accumulated knowledge can best be used to affect change in society. And here’s the thing — one of my father’s … Continue reading
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Tagged art, creativity, education, hypotheses, inspiration, learning, osmosis, schools
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Hello Dali
cast andrew wyeth pablo picasso salvador dali georgia o’keefe francis bacon THE ACTION TAKES PLACE IN A COFFEE SHOP IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE SCENE ONE AS THE LIGHTS COME UP, WE SEE WYETH, PICASSO, AND BACON SITTING AROUND A 50’s STYLE … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artists, creativity, drama, excerpts, plays, surrealism
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The Dust That Settles Between Sculptures
When you think of all the time spent constructing a life, each scene cast in its fragile plaster mold and then carefully chiselled and sanded away so the finished piece can find its own path in the world out there … Continue reading
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Tagged art, commitment, creativity, daily poems, doldrums, struggle, work
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