July 2012
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A Poet's Advice
e. e. cummings
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feeling through words.[[MORE]]
This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel-but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling-not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can...
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Manhattan: The Great American Desert
New York is a city of movement. If I walk rapidly I feel at ease, but if I stop for a moment I am troubled
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946
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Manhattan: The Great American Desert
I knew very well that I would like New York. But I thought that I would be able to like it immediately, as I had immediately liked the red bricks of Venice and the somber, massive houses of London. I did not know that...
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“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the...”
– Дмитри Карамазов
Фёдор Достоевский, Братья Карамазовы (1880)
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Meditation XVII
No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe
is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as
well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; It tolls for...
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