M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach — Brain Pickings
“A person who is lucidly aware of the miracles that surround him, who has learned to bear up under the loneliness, has made quite a bit of progress on the road to wisdom.” “If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in,” Rachel Carson wrote as she contemplated the loneliness…
M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach — Brain Pickings
Clarice Lispector — The Vale of Soul-Making
I write because I passionately want to speak. Even though writing is only giving me the great measure of silence.
— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva. (New Directions, June 13, 2012) Originally published August 1973.
Antonin Artaud – Ma colère… — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Ma colère ne changera pas les choses du tout au tout, si, elle les changera du tout au tout, ce qui veut dire que j’en viendrai à ce que je ne cesse de regretter de ne pas être : un homme différemment conformé, capable de trouver le verbe rétensif, réservé, recoudé, abstensif, affirmatif, dont toutes […]
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In Memory: “Even aimless journeys have a purpose.” — Art of Quotation
“Even aimless journeys have a purpose.” Tony Horwitz, 1959-2019, author, journalist, Pultizer Prize winner, quote from “One for the Road“
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Gaston Bachelard — The Vale of Soul-Making
The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories.
— Gaston Bachelard, Earth and Reveries of Will: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter. (Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture, September 1, 2002) Originally published 1948.
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited” — Art of Quotation
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited”
– Jorge Luis Borges, writer
Rumi — The Vale of Soul-Making
Surge like an ocean, don’t scatter yourself like a storm. Life’s waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. Night travelers are full of light, and you are, too; don’t leave this companionship.
— Rumi, from “Search the Darkness,” Love Is a Stranger (Shambhala, 2000)
Yūko Tsushima — the [blank] garden
Yūko Tsushima (pen name of Satoko Tsushima, 30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016) was a Japanese writer. Her father, the writer Osamu Dazai, committed suicide together with his lover, when Tsushima was one year old, and she was raised by her mother. Tsushima began her literary career by contributing to the private literary magazine Bungei shuto, and published her first stories […]
Ernest Hemingway — The Vale of Soul-Making
I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories (Scribner, 1987)
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