'By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.”

Joseph Brodsky

WAITING FOR GODOT

Vladimir: “Well? Shall we go?”

Estragon: “Yes, let's go.”

They do not move.

~ Samuel Beckett
Born on this day, in 1906

📷 John Minihan

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”- Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Paul Holdengraber Eduardo Pagés Santacana

Marc Chagall: ' Rostropovich always plays so that Bach would have been happy...'
Mstislav Rostropovich with Marc Chagall.
#smlpdf
sheetmusiclibrary.website

“Deserve your dream.” - octavio paz

Octavio Paz was born on this day, in 1914, Mexico City

Paul Holdengraber Eduardo Pagés Santacana Deny Fear

Sister Mary Corita Kent (1918-1986) US Catholic nun and Pop art artist #womensart

In afwachting van: Nederlands Blazers Ensemble i.s.m. Duda Paiva Company - Matthäus-Passion #Paradiso Amsterdam

Happy birthday to Frank O'Hara and this cantata for his lovely orange cat.

for
#InternationalDayOfHappiness

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy”
~ Kurt Vonnegut

'Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
~ Philip Roth
Born on this day, in 1933

thanks to Sija-lize B.- J

'Schreiben ist groß machen.'

Christa Wolf

88th birthday of Georges Perec. Barely older than Pynchon and DeLillio but gone 40+ years already.

Mercredi.

My quotomania validated:'“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”~ Michel de Montaigne / Paul Holdengräber

Renowned interviewer and 'Curator of Public Curiosity' Paul Holdengräber to leave NYPL

artdaily.com/news/108938/Re…

Paul Holdengraber David Reader 📚🐳 Deny Fear

‘But once in a while the odd thing happens, Once in a while the dream comes true, And the whole pattern of life is altered, Once in a while the moon turns blue.’

W.A. Auden

I came across Mark Rothko's work at #FondationLouisVuitton through a post by #ShoHirano who attended the recent #LouisVuitton show in Paris!
Mysterious forces that cannot be touched.
I hope to see it with my own eyes one day!

Fondation LV
VOGUE JAPAN
Louis Vuitton
#LVMenFW24

“I became a painter because I wanted to raise painting to the level of poignancy of music and poetry.”
Mark Rothko #fondationlouisvuitton #Paris

God's list of liquids according to Anne Carson.

🔶 EDWARD HOPPER
Born on this day, in 1882

thanks to Sija-lize B.- J