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“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want” F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender […]
We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin? – Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Samstag, 30. Juni 2018 um 18 Uhr Freilichtmuseum Wander Bertoni Gritsch Mühle 1, 7092 WINDEN am See Eine Ankündigung & Einladung von Beatrice Simonsen [Kunst und Literatur], Organisatorin dieser Veranstaltung, die mich eingeladen hat, einen “poetic Live act in 3D” für Wander Bertoni zu performen: Der zweite Termin des Jahres von „Kunst und Literatur im […]
via Kunst und Literatur im Burgenland bei Wander Bertoni — wally[RE]
“to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude” Susan Sontag, writer
via “to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude” — Art of Quotation
A last tribute to libraries and librarians for National Library Week from the brilliant Nikki Giovanni. MY FIRST MEMORY (OF LIBRARIANS) This is my first memory: A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky wood floor A line of green shades—bankers’ lights—down the center Heavy oak chairs that were too low […]
via My First Memory of Librarians — Travel Between The Pages
Check out this piece on one of Henry’s biggest influences (and contemporaries), the criminally underrated Blaise Cendrars. Cendras “was never identified with any literary movement and was, himself, completely indifferent to the characterizations and classifications of the poetic idioms of his time. “He moved forward, all alone, toward unknown waters of poetical creation, composing complex […]
There are those who believe that a book should be read once and then passed on to its next reader; I am not one of them. Granted, many of the books I read end up becoming favorites of mine (19 of the books reviewed on my blog have been re-reads), but most end up being […]
via On the Subject of Revisiting Books — The Past Due Review
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” Erich Fromm, philosopher, author, sociologist
via “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” — Art of Quotation
The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle. — Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy. (Penguin Classics; Reissue edition, March 28, 2006) Originally published 1987.
One of the acknowledged precursors of Surrealism, the work of French caricaturist J.J Grandville was featured in Documents magazine and is discussed at length in Walter Benjamin’s vast and fragmentary study of the urban redevelopment of Paris by Baron Haussmann, The Arcades Project (Passagen-Werk). He rose to fame in 1828 with Les Métamorphoses du jour, a book with […]
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