“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, poet
via “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Art of Quotation
Antonin Artaud – On Life and Self-Belief
We need to live first of all; to believe in what makes us live and that something makes us live-to believe that whatever is produced from the mysterious depths of ourselves need not forever haunt us as an exclusively digestive concern.
– Antonin Artaud, in The Theatre and Its Double
Antonin Artaud – On Form and Meaning in Life
If our life lacks brimstone, i.e., a constant magic, it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
– Antonin Artaud, in The Theatre and Its Double
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by…” — Art of Quotation
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American, writer, poet
via “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by…” — Art of Quotation
“You can’t learn less” — Art of Quotation
“You can’t learn less” – R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, writer, inventor
Hélène Cixous — The Vale of Soul-Making
I write, I extend my hand; without my knowing it, this is already a prayer, I extend my hand to you so that you will exist because you do exist, beyond my fingers, your fingers, without my knowing it this is already a response, already I draw to my side the site for you, with […]
Au Bonheur des Dames — Soundlandscapes’ Blog
AU BONHEUR DES DAMES is a novel by Emile Zola set in the world of the department store in nineteenth-century Paris. It covers the period approximately from 1864 to 1869 and it’s the eleventh novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macqart series. From Zola’s original manuscript for Au Bonheur des Dames When Zola was writing Au Bonheur des […]
Langston Hughes — The Vale of Soul-Making
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams Were it not for your songs. — Langston Hughes, “Quiet Girl,” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (First Vintage Classic, 1995)
Bukowski – On Contentment
“contentment between agonies is the elixir of existence”
– Charles Bukowski [1985] in Pig In a Pamphlet #12, Introduction by Harry Calhoun
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” — Art of Quotation
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” – Floyd Dell, novelist, editor, playwright, poet
via “Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” — Art of Quotation
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