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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ ON LIFE

“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we’re very fortunate, by time itself. There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we’ve ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they)...

15 May 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ I WANT TO TALK TO TCHEKOV

“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.” ― Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield playing the cello, Queen’s College, Harley Street, London, between 1903-1905

26 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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EMILY BRONTE ~ VARIOUS FEELINGS OF LOVE

“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.

14 February 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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MIRAGE ~ POEM BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

The hope I dreamed of was a dream, Was but a dream; and now I wake Exceeding  comfortless, and worn, and old, For a dream’s sake. I hang my harp upon a tree, A weeping willow in a lake; I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt For a dream’s sake. Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream’s sake. Mirage Charles Conder (1889)

13 February 2013 | Poetry of Art | , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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LUCIAN FREUD ~ AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ART

” My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.” Lucian Freud

03 November 2012 | Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE WAVES OF LIFE

“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ” ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

29 August 2012 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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OSCAR WILDE ~ ON POETS

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde

17 May 2012 | Poetical Visions | , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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NEIL GAIMAN ~ FRAGILE THINGS

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.” Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

14 April 2012 | Poetry of Art, The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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CHARLOTTE BRONTE ~ A FREE HUMAN BEING WANTING TO LEAVE

Rochester: “Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” Jane: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

20 February 2012 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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OSCAR WILDE ~ A WORK OF ART

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” Oscar Wilde

11 February 2012 | Passion Of Art, The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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