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The older I get and observe popular culture, the better I appreciate Plato’s criticism of art and its ability to destroy the moral fabric of society.
Art is a powerful illusion and, thus, potentially dangerous.
We are, after all, what we consume.
“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
—Ilya Kaminsky
Thank you, @GaryLachman for alerting me to this very interesting book, "Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought"
https://t.co/DUH1dY6N7e
Featuring essays on: #Goethe, #Nietzsche, #Rilke,
#Kafka and #KarlKraus
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring.
There is nothing that does not require his attention.”
—Flannery O’Connor
There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity.
We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.
—Michael Longley
#NFTart Competition on #Hive :
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‘Truly I seek refuge in Thee from questioning Thee concerning that whereof I have no knowledge.’
#Quran
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. —Herman Melville
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
—William Blake
The mouth was shaped to gasp
the eyes drawn to attend
the soul commanded to obey.
What else is there to say?
https://t.co/wmyjTcaYlE #wednesdaythought