“ Nur der Tor verlangt nach diesem unzeitgemäßen Rausch. (Only a fool desires such untimely ecstasy.)”
“peut-être n’y a-t-il que le beau qui nous humanise”
～Alain, Propos sur l’esthétique, 1923
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
～Kahlil Gibran
《莊周夢蝶》
Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens, light.
Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens, light.
～St. Francis of Assisi
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About Me
- Poesis
- a place of music, and poetry
- "That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful." ～Edgar Allan Poe / "Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being. Emanating from the harmonious rays of the Divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter." ～Jean Delville
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Virtual Places of My Heart
- John Keats
- Poetry in Translation
- The Modernism Lab at Yale
- ♥ Светлана Захарова ♥
- Antoine Watteau
- Art of Asia
- Art of Chinese Calligraphy
- Bibliodyssey
- Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths
- British Journal of Aesthetics
- Caruso Archive Recordings
- Chinese Text Project諸子百家
- Classical Chinese Poems
- Classical Literature (music)
- David de Jongh Weill
- David my love...
- From Russia with Love
- Homage to Jacques Prévert
- Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók
- Juilliard Manuscript Collection
- La Nouvelle Décadence: Rimbaud
- Le Petit Coffre Aux Trésors
- Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
- Proust Ink
- Resemblance: Portraits from In Search of Lost Time
- Rimbaud: Selected Poems in Translation
- Seeking Beauty
- Sharing Poetry
- Shi Jing (詩經)
- Tang Dynasty Times
- The Philosophy of Poetry
- The Tale of Genji
- Things of Beauty
- Waggish Reads Proust
- Warp Weft Way
- 中國文字藝術
- 中國詩歌庫
- 古今和歌集原文與中譯
- 小野小町 Ono no Komachi
- 李清照詞全集
- 簫堯詩苑
- 薛濤詩全集
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- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- "Light-footed, Wry in Comment, and Elegant in Form."
- Purple Crystal and An Ancient Serpent
- Cathy de Monchaux
- Julia's Magical World
- Berliner Esplanade
- “Music” by Walter de la Mare
- Wilde & Bach (inspired by my previous post...)
- The Goldberg of Gould
- Seeing with Mind's Eyes — Colours of Japan
- Nostalgia
- When Words Fail...
- Vertigo
- English Gardens
- Musings on Recent Cinematics
- Enchantment of the Full Moon
- Sibelius - Ferras's Virtuosic Beauty & Heifetz's P...
- Sound of Violin: smooth as the knife cutting throu...
- Adieu Ma Concubine
- Je crois entendre encore & Una furtiva lagrima
- Ashton's Isadora
- The Beauty that is Baroque
- Palais Garnier
- Schönberg's Gurrelieder (makes me faint)
- La belle au bois dormant
- Swans in अद्वैत वेदान्त (Advaita Vedanta)
- Valentine's in the Arctic City of Dreams
- Song of the Earth
- Man Ray & Grey Gardens
- Tinted Antique Beauty
- The Open Road - a cinematic postcard of Britain in...
- Rabindranath Tagore
- "Merce My Way"
- Think Pink!
- The city is built to music, therefore never built ...
- Tulips (by Sylvia Plath)
- The Nectar of Dance and Music
- Leonid Kogan
- When a photographer meets a musician...
- Largo
- Bach's Chaconne
- Cantabile
- Ma Pavlowa—Lucia Lacarra
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- Silent Woods
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
～G. Bachelard
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
～Umberto Eco
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
～Thomas Mann
Stay, little ounce, here in/ Fleece and leaf with me, in the evermore/ Where swans trembled in the lake around our bed of hay and morning/ Came each morning like a felt cloak billowing/ Across the most pale day. It was the color of a steeple disappearing/ In an old Venetian sky. (...)
~For a Snow Leopard in October, Lucie Brock-Broido
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