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PABLO NERUDA ~ ON HIS POETRY

Published on 11 June 2011 in Poetical Visions by Monique

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
~Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

CHAGALL ~ ON TALENT

Published on 10 June 2011 in Passion Of Art by Monique

“My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.”

Marc Chagall

OSCAR WILDE ~ ON ART

Published on 10 June 2011 in Passion Of Art by Monique

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Oscar Wilde

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ INTELLECTUALISM

Published on 9 June 2011 in Art & the Unconscious Mind/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by Monique

“…and I reminded myself that the reproach of intellectualism is often directed at the most sensitive natures, those most ardently alive, those obliged by their frailty or their excess of strength constantly to resort to the arduous disciplines of the mind.”

Marguerite Yourcenar

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ KNOWING YOURSELF

Published on 9 June 2011 in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by Monique

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”

Marguerite Yourcenar (Memoirs of Hadrian)

MURIEL RUKEYSER ~ ON POETRY

Published on 8 June 2011 in Poetical Visions by Monique

Breathe-in experience,
breathe-out poetry.

~Muriel Rukeyser

MIKAIL BULGAKOV ~ GOOD AND EVIL

Published on 7 June 2011 in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by Monique

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You’re stupid.”

Mikail Bulgakov ( The Master and Margarita)

JOSEPH LEFEBVRE ~ PANDORA

Published on 7 June 2011 in Art & the Unconscious Mind by Monique

“Pandora” 1882 by Jules Joseph Lefebvre

In Greek mythology, Pandora (ancient Greek, Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν “all” and δῶρον “gift”, thus “giver of all”, “all-endowed”) was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mould her out of Earth as part of the punishment of mankind for Prometheus’ theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her “seductive gifts”. Her other name, inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum, is Anesidora, “she who sends up gifts, up implying “from below” within the earth. According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as “Pandora’s box” , releasing all the evils of mankind— although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod — leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again. She opened the jar out of simple curiosity and not as a malicious act