A Love Poem…

In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation:

Calliope (the ‘beautiful of speech’): chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry
Clio (the ‘glorious one’): muse of history
Erato (the ‘amorous one’): muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs
Euterpe (the ‘well-pleasing’): muse of music and [...]

Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg dealing with class, love/lust, the battle of the sexes, and the interaction among them. Set on midsummer night of 1894 on the estate of a Count in Sweden, the young woman of the title, attempting to escape an existence cramped [...]

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”-Goethe
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As long as I love Beauty I am young,
Am young or old as I love more or less;
When Beauty is not heeded or seems stale,
My life’s a cheat, let Death end my distress.
William Henry Davies

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art…

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Western art is the art of European Countries, and those parts of the world that have come to follow predominantly European cultural traditions such as the Americas.
Written histories of Western art often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Aegean civilisations, [...]

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Photography (IPA: [fә'tɒgrәfi] or IPA: [fә'tɑːgrәfi][1]) (from Greek φωτο and γραφία) is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure, usually [...]

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (collectively known [...]

When I have Fears That I may Cease To Be
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high - piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And feel that I may [...]

“A good writer or artist possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.-”Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.“-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
“The best [...]

“The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we’re passing one another without a look of recognition.” -Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary [...]