On [:] The horror and the ecstasy | Charles Baudelaire, 1865
Gustave Courbet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1849 . “As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings,...
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On [:] Semi-darkness | Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1950
Caspar David Friedrich, Mondaufgang am Meer, 1822 “Look at your room late in the evening when you can hardly distinguish...
On [:] A foolish expedient | George Bernard Shaw, 1880
George Bernard Shaw and his wife playing chess, 1907 by Alfred Stieglitz“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle...
On [:] Prematurity | Samuel Beckett, 1946
“Ask the hour of a passer-by and he’ll throw it at you over his shoulder at a venture and hurry...
On [:] Music | Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
Antonina Leonardov Rzhevskaya, Music, 1902-03 “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
On [:] The clouds | Fitz James O’Brien, 1828 – 62
Johan Christian Dahl, Moon Night Over Dresden, 1827 “We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night...
On [:] The error of the senses | Louis Aragon, 1897-1982
Sara Aurora Waters, Strange flower IV, 2014 . “There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the...
On [:] The ring | James Jones, 1951
Karl Hofer: Boxer, 1940 . “One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and...
On [:] The dark | Jean Genet, 1959
Daniel Zender “Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.” Jean Genet, The Blacks, 1959 Also:...
On [:] Head | Anne Sexton, 1928-1974
Anne Sexton: Self portrait“Meanwhile in my head, I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.” Anne Sexton, 1928-1974 Also: For My Lover, Returning To...