May 2013
42 posts
“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language...”
– Greil Marcus SVA Commencement Address: How the Division of High vs. Low Culture Robs Art of Its Essence | Brain Pickings
“I’ve always believed that the divisions between high art and low art, between...”
– Greil Marcus SVA Commencement Address: How the Division of High vs. Low Culture Robs Art of Its Essence | Brain Pickings
“May my silences become more accurate.” ~ Theodore Roethke”
– CALM THINGS: We are required to make something beautiful
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to...”
– From Abigail Adams to Anne Sexton to Maya Angelou, History’s Finest Letters of Motherly Advice | Brain Pickings
“Some things that fly there be—
Birds—Hours—the Bumblebee—”
– the prowling Bee: Some things that fly there be—
“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations —...”
– On Craftsmanship: The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice, 1937 | Brain Pickings
lindasinklings:
Worry gives small things a big shadow.
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— Swedish Proverb
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April 2013
17 posts
