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Vot Mutta Zaid 2
Shit my mother said Modernist Bread and Flying pancakes https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tell-me-something-i-dont-know-2/e/49183268?autoplay=true Just the first 1:30 seconds, haven’t figured out how to cut clips.
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“Exuberance is beauty.”
Quotations from Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” “Exuberance is beauty.” “Energy is eternal delight.” “Damn braces; bless relaxes.” “Enough! Or too much.” “I asked; ‘does a firm persuasion that a thing if so, make it so?’ “He replied: ‘all poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains;
... read more.Ezra Pound’s summary of the new poetics 1913
“In the spring or early summer of 1912, ‘H.D’, Richard Aldington, and myself decided we were agreed upon the three principles following: (1) Direct treatment of the ‘thing’ whether subjective or objective. (2) To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. (3) As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of
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Today’s quotations brought to you by the letter b
Blake was the first long-dead poet whose writing appealed to me. Songs of Innocence and Experience were taught in Intro English, and it opened the door to The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, littered with proverbs and aphorisms. Two of my favourites are “Expect poison from standing water,” and the shortest “exuberance is beauty.” The
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Anita Brookner Quotations
She died March 10, of this year it seems. She was 87. She won a Booker for Hotel Du Lac. Brookner is eminently quotable. “All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.” “I was brought up
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Archimedes & R.E.M. Quote
I’m still in the A’s in my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, reading this one with my morning coffee. “Give me but one firm place on which to to stand, and I will move the earth.” – Archimedes, echoed in one of my favourite R.E.M. songs, “Stand.” Some Monday morning fun. Check out R.E.M’s You Tube
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Quotes, A?
I’m paging through my dad’s old Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, second edition 1959. I’m starting with Joseph Addison, whose quotes remain relevant nearly 400 years later. “A perfect tragedy is the noblest creation of human nature.” The Spectator No. 39 “If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by our
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Today’s Quotations – Robert Walser
“What swimming person, provided he is not about to drown, can help being in excellent spirits?” It is a very painful thing, having to part company with what torments you. And how mute the world is!”
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