March 2012
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“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
Sylvia Plath
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“Go, go, go said the bird: the human kind Cannot bear very much reality.”
T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton”
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“I’ve never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet”
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“You can walk into the shadow early, singing a song whose words you forget as they leave your tongue and believe it is courage, not fear, marching you forward.”
Al Maginnes, from “The Edge of the Field”
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“somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near”
e.e.cummings “somewhere i have never travelled”
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“The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies between me and my book;”
Amy Lowell “Vernal Equinox”
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“Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.”
Agnes Martin
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“In a whisper. To talk in a whisper. In a whisper - like the sea.”
Anna Kamieńska, from her Notebook, 1965
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“When the wind stops the silence comes back…”
Raúl Zurita, INRI
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“… but ‘I’ rejected: ‘We’ substituted: to whom at the end there shall be an invocation? ‘We’… the composed of many different things… we all life, all art, all waifs and strays—a rambling capricious but somehow unified whole—the present state of my mind?”
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 26 April 1938
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