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Post by glenn on Apr 19, 2011 15:35:57 GMT -6
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
~~Thomas Mann
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Post by glenn on Apr 19, 2011 15:38:15 GMT -6
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
~~William Faulkner
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Post by glenn on Apr 19, 2011 15:40:19 GMT -6
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
~~Mark Twain
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Post by anirbas on Apr 20, 2011 23:39:54 GMT -6
I so adored the literal and symbolic irony of this quote, Glenn, I took the liberty of borrowing it to adorn the forum fader...Hope you don't mind...
~*~
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
~~Thomas Mann
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Post by glenn on Apr 21, 2011 15:28:31 GMT -6
Mann has written some wonderful stuff. I'm currently re-reading The Magic Mountain, which is the one that won Mann the Nobel Prize for Literature, I think. **
The dialogues between Settembrini and Naphta are classic, the former the staunch advocate of humanism and rational progress and the other the self-destructive voice of religious terrorism and fascist nationalism. Quite a book! And ah! Frau Chaucat!
I keep trying to read Joseph and His Brothers , but it is an immense work. Too expensive to buy and impossible to read in the normal loan period set at the library.
One of my favorite authors.
**Did a little fact-checking. In fact, 'twas Buddenbrooks
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Post by glenn on Jul 7, 2011 15:08:31 GMT -6
I like the silence of a church, before the service begins, better than any preaching.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by glenn on Jul 19, 2011 15:43:27 GMT -6
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
~George Orwell
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Post by heartfelt7 on Jul 20, 2011 9:53:52 GMT -6
Sometimes I may have the Heart of a poet, but I have never had the mind of a poet.
Rumi, on the other hand, has both:
One day You will take my heart completely,
And make it more fiery than a dragon.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem
That could never come from the pen of a poet.
- Rumi
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Post by glenn on Jul 20, 2011 16:00:06 GMT -6
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
~Marianne Moore
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Post by anirbas on Jul 20, 2011 22:35:21 GMT -6
Heartfelt, I would beg to differ that you do not have the mind of poet...
However, I believe I can safely say, we all adore the magnificent Rumi!
I love this piece of his you brought to share with us!
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Post by glenn on Nov 14, 2011 15:01:12 GMT -6
In dealing with symbols and myths from far away we are really conversing somehow with ourselves -- with a part of ourselves, however, which is as unfamiliar to our conscious being as the interior of the earth to the students of geology.
~~Heinrich Zimmer
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Post by glenn on Nov 18, 2011 16:38:28 GMT -6
Industry without art is brutality.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877 -)
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Post by anirbas on Nov 19, 2011 22:54:00 GMT -6
I found myself going for the 'like' button on this one...lol...Facebook is insidious!
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Post by glenn on Nov 20, 2011 14:59:31 GMT -6
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Post by glenn on Nov 21, 2011 16:46:04 GMT -6
Was trying to track down the source of the art/industry quote and discovered that it may actually be attributable to John Ruskin: quotationsbook.com/quote/18127/Perhaps Coomaraswamy was quoting Ruskin...? |
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Post by glenn on Nov 21, 2011 16:56:06 GMT -6
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Post by glenn on Nov 22, 2011 16:12:40 GMT -6
Okay. So the actual quote, written by John Ruskin in his Lectures on Art in 1870, is as follows: “Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.” See reference: en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_RuskinCoomaraswamy quoted part of that line on page 12 of the document cited in the previous post. Oy. Why do I ever get started on these things? |
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Post by anirbas on Nov 23, 2011 22:50:01 GMT -6
I like that you do get started on these things, Glenn.
We all learn something from the things you start...
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Post by anirbas on Nov 23, 2011 22:50:25 GMT -6
"You can't wait for inspiration,
you have to go after it with a club."
~Jack London
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Post by glenn on Nov 24, 2011 16:44:15 GMT -6
I like that you do get started on these things, Glenn. We all learn something from the things you start...  Thanks. It certainly reminds me to think about the context from which the quote came. |
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Post by glenn on Nov 24, 2011 16:44:55 GMT -6
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”
~~Dr. Carl Sagan
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Post by glenn on Nov 25, 2011 16:09:57 GMT -6
"It is not the tongue, but our very life that sings the new song."
A.K. Coomaraswamy
(and I know this is a bona fide Coomaraswamy quote, because I picked it myself from one of his essays)
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Post by glenn on Feb 2, 2012 16:07:33 GMT -6
...life itself is always premature which is why it aches and anguishes....Because the tragedy of life is, it must be premature, inconclusive and inconcludable, in order to be life; it must be before itself, in advance of itself, to have been at all....
William Faulkner (The Town)
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Post by glenn on Feb 6, 2012 14:59:16 GMT -6
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
~~John Archibald Wheeler
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Post by glenn on Feb 13, 2012 14:25:23 GMT -6
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
~~Thomas Gray
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Post by glenn on May 8, 2012 15:51:19 GMT -6
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
¯ Dr. Seuss
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Post by anirbas on May 8, 2012 16:28:02 GMT -6
Glenn, I just "borrowed" your next to the last quote for the forum page header...Love it!
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Post by glenn on May 14, 2012 13:30:25 GMT -6
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
~~ Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Post by glenn on May 29, 2012 15:37:56 GMT -6
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
~~William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
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Post by glenn on Jun 7, 2012 15:32:06 GMT -6
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
~~Ray Bradbury
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