A Love Poem…

“Een man die nooit door de hel van zijn hartstochten is gegaan, heeft ze ook nooit overwonnen.” ~Jung

“De hartstochten zijn gebreken of deugden, alleen opgedreven. Voor hartstocht liggen uitersten het meest voor de hand.” ~Goethe

“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

“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 [...]

“Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.“-Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005), was an acclaimed American writer born in Canada of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.[1]
Bellow’s [...]

“The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”-D.A.F de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 – December 2, [...]

“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 [...]

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”-Rachmaninoff
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Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the [...]

“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

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.“-Jeremy Irons
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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.“-Aristotle

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“For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be.”-Giacomo Casanova
The future is a time period commonly understood to contain all events that have yet to occur.[1] It is the opposite of the past, and is the time after the [...]

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.“-Oscar Wilde
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“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is it’s own excuse for being.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The avererage man is more interested in a women who is interested in him than he is in a woman”-Oblomov

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.Most people exist,that is all.”-Oscar Wilde

“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue… gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”-Confusius
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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”-Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

“The supreme object of life is to live.Few people live.It is true life only to realize one’s own perfection,to make one’s every dream a reality”-Oscar Wilde

“Makers of empire,they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones”-Herbert Kaufman

“Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy.  It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”-Lou Krieger

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“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

“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”-Antisthenes
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“There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.”-Sir Francis Bacon
“To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.”-Oblomov

“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.“-Noam Chomsky

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
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“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. “-Franz Kafka

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”-Henry Miller

” There’s always been a lot of tension between Lois and me, and it’s not so much that I want to kill her, it’s just I want her …not to be alive, anymore. Ah, I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult, and then I think to myself: My God, wouldn’t it be marvelous [...]

“…één van de sterkste motieven die de mens naar kunst en wetenschap leidde is de ontsnapping aan het alledaagse, met zijn pijnlijke grofheid en hopeloze somberheid; en het breken van de ketenen van zijn eigen altijd wisselende verlangens. Een gevoelige ziel verlangt het persoonlijke leven te ontvluchten naar de wereld van objectieve perceptie en gedachten.” [...]

” Imagination is more important than intelligence and knowledge. “-Coen Brothers
http://www.coenbrothers.net/coens.html

” Joy is spirit expressing
itself in our life “