Salzburg Altstadt – Mülln
Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2018
Man Ray — words and music and stories
Today would have been Man Ray’s 128th birthday. He was born in Philadelphia on August 27, 1890 , and died in France in 1976. This American surrealist photographer and painter spent most of his career in Paris. He said: “I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.” “I never knew what I was […]
looking for hemingway, the lost generation, in the cafés–part 2 — un Voyageur
In 1971 I traveled to Paris for the first time. I mentioned finding a Balzac-like pension where I could stay for a couple of months that was around the corner from a former Hemingway apartment on rue Notre Dames des Champs and within easy walking distance from rue de Fleurus, the apartment of Gertrude Stein […]
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The dance — memory of a bird (and a thousand words)
« The art of living is based on rhythm, on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all the aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a […]
Henry Miller, “the wisdom of the heart”. In “the wisdom of the heart”. New York: New Directions, 1966, p. 32-33.
Olav H. Hauge – Un poème chaque jour — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Je veux écrire chaque jour un poème, chaque jour. Ce doit être facile. Browning s’y était mis, il faisait des rimes et battait la mesure avec ses sourcils en broussaille. Donc, un poème par jour. Quelque chose te surprend quelque chose arrive quelque chose attire ton attention. – Il fait jour, je me lève avec […]
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Charles Bukowski: On Writing
The racetrack to me is like the bullfights were to Hemingway — a place to study death and motion and your own character or lack of it.
– Charles Bukowski
an eye for a tie — .documenting.the.obvious
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.
– Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
The writing arrives when it wants to. There is nothing you can do about it. You can’t squeeze more writing out of the living than is there.
– Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
Writing, finally, even becomes work especially if you are trying to pay the rent and child support with it. But it is the finest work and the only work, and it’s a work that boosts your ability to live and your ability to live pays you back with your ability to create. One feeds the other, it is all very magic.
– Charles Bukowski
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