Posts tagged ‘Art’
Mar 10
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Tchaikovsky
Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger ―Craig Benzine
Mar 4
“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing” ―Molière
Dancing muse
Sublime graces
Here’s your cue
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin —Leonard Cohen
Feb 28
“Winter solitude — / in a world of one color / the sound of wind” ―Matsuo Bashō
Frog backflips
A freezing wind whips
Pond ice chips
“First snow
falling
on the half-finished bridge”
―Matsuo Bashō
Feb 19
“Why so scrawny, cat? / Starving for fat fish or mice… / Or backyard love?” ―Matsuo Bashō
Haiku-san
Zazen Samurai
Brush master
“How admirable!
to see lightning and not think
life is fleeting”
―Matsuo Bashō
May 23
“Unusual travel directions are dancing lessons from God.”—Kurt Vonnegut
On the rive gauche in French
One is not maladroit
Who hangs left for a stretch
To gain la route à droite
Beside the path
Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.
―Nashoda Rose
“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”—Tom Robbins
When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My Blue Pencil
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
—Mark Twain
“My life is a mosaic, and there’s no room in between pieces at all.”—Marcia Clark
They meet by serendipity,
in a surreal mirage of tile;
paired and spared for eternity,
to stand on the mosaic mile.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark tells his scholarly pal, Horatio, of encountering a talking ghost wearing his late father’s armor and crown: an absurdity undreamt in Horatio’s philosophy, with which he is endowed by the enlightened rational faculty of the Bard of Avon.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
—Ambrose Bierce
“The mind is like an umbrella. It’s most useful when open.” —Walter Gropius
Won’t flip inside-out in a gust
Nor flap like a gull in a gale
Impassively as iron rusts
The stoic umbrella prevails
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.
—George Carlin
May 4
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein
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