"The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery."
-Fred Alan Wolf
07 July 2018
Happy birthday, Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born on this day in 1860. What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. Gustav Mahler The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra performs the Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel ...
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."
Jim Harrison
¨The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.¨
van Eyck, Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban
"The Poet is the Priest of The Invisible." Wallace Stevens
Technique.
"Technique is the proof of your seriousness." Wallace Stevens
TIGHT LINES!
W.B. Yeats
THE CAPTAIN
NICHOLAS HAWKSMOOR
"Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it."
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.
"The best defense against a usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."
PHILIP PULLMAN
"We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence."
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