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JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC

in The Melody of Art by

“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

Jean Cocteau

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JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ THE SUM

in A Mysterious Encounter with the Moon/Poetry of Art by

The silent friendliness of the moon

(misquoting Virgil) accompanies you

since that one night or evening lost

in time now, on which your restless

eyes first deciphered her forever

in a garden or patio turned to dust.

Forever? I know someone, someday

will be able to tell you truthfully:

‘You’ll never see the bright moon again,

You’ve now achieved the unalterable

sum of moments granted you by fate.

Useless to open every window

in the world. Too late. You’ll not find her.’

We live discovering and forgetting

that sweet familiarity of the night.

Take a long look. It might be the last.

Jorge Luis Borges

Painting is “Moon light over the Seine”
Henry Pether (1828-1865)

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JULIO CORTAZAR ~ ON DISTRACTION

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
Julio Cortazar – Around the Day in Eighty WorLds

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

ROMAIN GARY ~ THE INSPIRATION OF LITERATURE

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality” 1956
Romain Gary, 1914 -1980

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

OCTAVIO PAZ ~ IS MODERN THINKING WIDE AWAKE?

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”

Octavio Paz
The labyrinth of Solitude

Mexican writer 1914-1998
Nobel Prize for literature in 1990

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BALZAC ~ NARROW MINDS

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“Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others”  (Eugenie Grandet)

Honore de Balzac

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

SAUL BELLOW ~ A GOOD MAN

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“He asked himself a question I still would like answered… ‘How should a good man live; what ought he to do?’

Dangling Man~ Saul Bellow

Published in 1944, Dangling Man reflected contemporary intellectual preoccupations with the nature of freedom.

Source 1001 books

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REBECCA WEST ~ THE ART OF SKEPTICISM

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“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person,  only … between different parts of a person’s mind.”

Rebecca West, “The Art of Skepticism,” 1952

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ANAIS NIN ~ ON WRITING

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers.../Thoughts on literature by

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you
do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write,
because our culture has no use for it.”
Anais Nin

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W.H. AUDEN ~ HOW DOES A POET EARN HIS MONEY?

in Poetical Visions by


“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
~W.H. Auden

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