Monthly Archives: September 2013

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross…. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage. –Ezra Pound, The Cantos

Wonderful, amazing! To think he did about 2 CDs of great music per year over about a 30 year period of composing. I have been through most of the main classical composers’ works with Beethoven finishing at the top of my … Continue reading →

it is the dream or illusion that is most beautiful and true, particularly in its conscious/ly realized forms. In literature, in music, in art, in architecture, in film, in Nature, and Love. As Thomas Wolfe said, “For if a man should … Continue reading →

Saw the Citadel’s competent production last night, a long journey unto itself. Each actor did well when it came time to do their various solo speeches which give the audience and the other characters on stage the missing info which … Continue reading →

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”–My Antonia

“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true Poem…”

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

–You are the protagonist of your own life. -The experience of beauty is important in affecting and enhancing your imagination, mind, sensibility, feelings, spirit, and soul. -It is important to have some way of expressing your feelings and thoughts, to … Continue reading →

One of the richnesses of my life and collections is my audio collection of great books, readers, and writers. Nightly, I have my pick of ‘who I go off to sleep to’–their voices (more on that in future writing) echoing soothily … Continue reading →

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?” —Walden To which I would add, Montaigne-ishly, bloggily–“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of … Continue reading →