Epigrams & Quotes

The Snow

The snow shrouds carefully
All things in a
Cuddly stillness

(January 2007)

The cricket

At night
The song of a cricket
Pierces the darkness

(Summer 2005)

 

Freedom

Determinism of the undetermined

Art

"Too often in the past we have thought of the artist as an idler and a dilettante and the lover of arts as somehow sissy or effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist, in relation to his work,, stern and lonely. he has labored hard, often among deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned away from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense discipline. As for the lover of the arts, it is he who, by subjecting himself to the sometimes disturbing experience of art, sustains the artist- and seeks only the reward that his life will, in consequence, be the more fully lived." (JFK, 1962)

Silence

What we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence. (Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Tractatus logico-philosophicus).

No 'why?'

"There is no 'why?' to being." (Meister Eckhart)

Being and the Dog

If "the concept of the dog does not bark" (Spinoza), the concept of being does arise in being.

Guru

“People use the guru as a crutch.”(J. Krishnamurti)

Avant-garde

"Did you know avant-garde is French for bullshit?" John Lennon

The Dream Called Life, Poem by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, translated from the Spanish by Edward Fitzgerald

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