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JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ ON POETRY

in Poetical Visions by

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

PETER HANDKE ~ INTELLECTUAL WRITER

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

“…You should learn how to run properly and scream properly, with your mouth wide open… even when you yawn you’re are afraid to open your mouth all the way.”

Peter Handke (Austria 1942- )

Handke sits firmly in the European tradition of intellectual writers who make serious demands upon their readers.

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ANAIS NIN ~ ON LOVE

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Anais Nin

ANAIS NIN ~ UNCONSCIOUS DREAMS

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Anais Nin

MARK TWAIN ~ QUOTE

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“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain 1835-1910

HENRY JAMES ~ ON PASSION OR MADNESS OF ART

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Portrait of Henry James

“We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.?”

Henry James

Henry James (1843-1916) , noted American-born English essayist, critic, and author of the realism movement wrote The Ambassadors (1903), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and The Portrait of a Lady (1881).

EMILY BRONTE ~ DREAMS

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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte
English writer 1818-1848

ANAIS NIN ~ LIFE AND DEATH

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin, “Winter of Artifice”

ANAIS NIN ~ ON MYSTERY

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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Anais Nin

TOLSTOY ~ WRITER AND HIS SOUL

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“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”

Tolstoy

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