“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” —Grant Wood
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Gothic revival
A paint job
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow—Grant Wood
Posts tagged ‘Picture Poetry’
Dec 6
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Nov 30
“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums”—Salvador Dali
Dream vision
Inverts perception
Surreally
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams—Salvador Dali
Nov 20
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch
What sense peers
Into the darkness
Hears a light
Why should poetry have to make sense?—Charlie Chaplin
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
Miraculous is the way
To view the mystery displayed
Upon the screen of all we survey
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture.
—Swami Vivekenanda
Apr 22
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