A Love Poem…

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for [...]

Name: Aphrodite
Parents: Unknown
Goddess of: Love, Beauty, Laughter, Pleasures
Symbol: Rose, Swan, Dove, Myrtle
Roman Name: Venus
Also Known As: Aligena, Candarena, Chrysenios, Urania
Patroness of: Courtesans
Notes: Aphrodite was not on the friendliest terms with Apollo and Artemis. She believed that every human needed a companion to love and be with. [...]

De Russische geschiedenis is rijk aan formidabele schrijversvrouwen. Anna Dostojevskaja behoedde haar man voor de financiële ondergang door zijn roman De speler binnen 24 dagen te stenograferen en zijn verdere werk in eigen beheer uit te geven. Sonja Tolstaja schreef Oorlog en Vrede zeven keer in het net. En wat te denken van Nadezjda Mandelstam, [...]

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 [...]

“The whole idea of changing the future has been brought up before, but this time instead of changing the future by altering the past it brings new perspective by altering the present by adding new info from the future”
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage “star-cross’d lovers“[1] whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays.

At least 24 operas have been based on Romeo and Juliet.[127] The earliest, Romeo und Julie in 1776, a Singspiel by Georg Benda, omits much of the action of the play and most of its characters, and has a happy ending. It is occasionally revived. The best-known is Gounod’s 1867 Roméo et Juliette (libretto by [...]

To Memory
Strange Power, I know not what thou art,
Murderer or mistress of my heart.
I know I’d rather meet the blow
Of my most unrelenting foe
Than live—as now I live—to be
Slain twenty times a day by thee.
Yet, when I would command thee hence,
Thou mockest at the vain pretence,
Murmuring in mine ear a song
Once loved, alas! forgotten long;
And [...]

Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress.
Following her film debut at the age of five, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947). A well received performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), brought her [...]

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.“-William Shakespeare
Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig [...]

“And muse on Nature with a poet’s eye.“-Thomas Campbell
Plot outline
The plot is taken from two chapters in Cervantes’ novel of the same name. It concerns the unsuccessful attempt by the rich and foppish Gamache (Camacho in Cervantes’s novel) to marry the beautiful Kitri (known as Quiteria in the novel), who in turn is in love [...]

“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.“-Edmund Waller
Analysis
Today Don Quixote is considered one of the most joyous and festive of the classical ballets, brimming with spectacular virtuoso dancing. At the same time this abundance of dancing is well organised, showing a clear choreographic and dramatic vision (particularly in the Kirov [...]

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Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the French court, further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. It is a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. It is primarily performed with the accompaniment of classical music. It has been influential as a form of [...]

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That crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made [...]

“I hated the self created in her by others. Others feel because of her; and because of her, others write poetry; because of her, others hate; others, like Henry, love her in spite of themselves.”-Anais Nin

June met Henry Miller in 1923 when she worked as a taxi dancer on broadway in New York and [...]

Who gave thee, O Beauty!
The keys of this breast,
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old;
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?
When first my eyes saw thee,
I found me thy thrall,
By magical drawings,
Sweet tyrant of all!
I drank at thy fountain
False waters of thirst;
Thou intimate stranger,
Thou latest and [...]

“I experienced first popularity
as boys queued up and asked to read
the comic strip under my slip.
One offered half a snickers
so I lifted my skirt.”-Angela Readman
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er [...]

Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China’s Cantonese culture. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia. Like all versions of Chinese opera, it is a traditional Chinese art form, involving music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics, and acting. 粵劇 (Yuèjù) should not be [...]

“O Muses,O high genius,aid me now!
O memory that engraved the things i saw,
Here shall your worth be manifest to all!”-Dante Alighieri

‘O for a Muse of fire,that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
Akingdom for a stage,princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!”-William Shakespeare
In Greek mythology, the Muses (Ancient Greek αἱ μοῦσαι, hai moũsai [1]: [...]

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream
and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men.-Li Po

Throw away thy rod,
Throw away thy wrath :
O my God,
Take the gentle path.
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Though I [...]

The Yueju opera player, Mao Weitao is a household name. She is celebrated for her performances of the male role over the last 25 years, and is now the head of the famous Xiaobaihua troupe in Zhejiang province, a troupe especially well known for its all-women cast. Now 42 years of age, Mao Weitao is [...]

“I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.”-Franco Zeffirelli
Shaoxing opera (or Yueju - simplified Chinese: 越剧; traditional Chinese: 越劇; pinyin: Yuèjù , Yue opera) is a relatively new local Chinese opera popular in the southern regions of the Yangtze River. It originated [...]

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.“-Edgar Allan Poe

A thing of beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its lovliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of [...]

The eyes of beauty
You are a sky of autumn, pale and rose;
But all the sea of sadness in my blood
Surges, and ebbing, leaves my lips morose,
Salt with the memory of the bitter flood.
In vain your hand glides my faint bosom o’er,
That which you seek, beloved, is desecrate
By woman’s tooth and talon; ah, no more
Seek in [...]

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The Mariinsky Ballet, is a classical ballet company based at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. Founded in the 19th Century and originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world’s leading ballet companies. Internationally, the Mariinsky Ballet is most commonly known by its former Soviet name the [...]

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.“-Aristotle

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“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.“-Giacomo Casanova
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er [...]

ONE
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Messalina,serving as a prostitute under the pseudonym of Lisisca.

Roman sources claim that Messalina used sex to enforce her power and control politicians.

she had a brothel under an assumed name and organised orgies for upper class women.

http://www.roman-emperors.org/valmess.htm

“I hated the self created in her by others. Others feel because of her; and because of her, others write poetry; because of her, others hate; others, like Henry, love her in spite of themselves.”
Anais Nin

“I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. “-Anthony Trollope

Bukowski:Poetry and motion…

” Joy is spirit expressing
itself in our life “