Thought provoking
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot • Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
I mean I think I am about to embody, at last, the exact shapes my brain holds. What a long toil to reach this beginning.
Claire Messud: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Essays in The Yale Review
It is, in large part, our familiarity with the photographers and videographers that places their output in a different category than the 20th-century war images on which our inherited discourse is based. Even if skillful, these are not works of art; they are distress signals. There is no hand-wringing about the politics of representation. The victi... See more
The Editors • Who Sees Gaza? | The Editors
Humanity is immense and reality has a myriad forms; the most one can affirm is that some of the flowers of fiction have the odour of it, and others have not
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What I hate is when you see a “good” image.
What do you define as a good image?
GUADAGNINO Like you see the designer instead of seeing the characters. Sometimes when I talk to my production designer and they show me something, I say, “That’s something that belongs to ‘cinema,’; we shouldn’t do that. We should do something that belongs to the reality... See more
What do you define as a good image?
GUADAGNINO Like you see the designer instead of seeing the characters. Sometimes when I talk to my production designer and they show me something, I say, “That’s something that belongs to ‘cinema,’; we shouldn’t do that. We should do something that belongs to the reality... See more
Kyle Buchanan • ‘Challengers’ Stars Put New Spins (and Slices and Volleys) on the Love Triangle
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
T. S. Eliot • Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
Those casual fans wonder why he can’t be more like the Stones, unfailing jukeboxes of their earlier selves. They want to squint and see the young Dylan, with his Pre-Raphaelite hair and his Brando sneer. They want, at least for an hour and a half, a magic act: a man in his eighties who is a man in his youth.