4.10.2024
4.08.2024
make it stop
And the calliope played on: Kalliope, the muse of epic poetry.
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calliope,
epic poetry,
Kalliope,
muse
4.07.2024
save a life
Poetry can save one’s life, and it need not be from trauma; it may be as simple as opening one to the world through language.
4.05.2024
one and done
There is art you are grateful to have experienced but wouldn’t want to own. There are poems you’re grateful to have read but wouldn’t read again.
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art,
disturbing art,
experience,
grateful,
own
4.03.2024
poem in mind
In the mind the poem has its essence before the first word is written.
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composition,
essence,
first word,
mind
4.02.2024
alt aesthetic
Not everyone need accept your aesthetic.
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aesthetic,
alt,
alternative,
different
six-hundred coffee-houses
The Viennese café was the quintessential meeting place of the city, a well-upholstered extension of the public sphere. As one historian of this era writes, the Viennese café ‘was an institution of a special kind…a sort of democratic club, for discussion, writing and playing cards’. There were about 600 of these coffee-houses in the imperial capital in 1900. Some Viennese conducted most of their work in cafés, often alternating between two or three favorites in a day. One businessman was said to have had his hours printed on his cards thus:
From 2 to 4 o’clock — Café Landtmann
From 4 to 5 o’clock — Café Rebhuhn
From 5 to 6 o’clock — Café Herrenhof
—Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World (Yale U Press, 2023) p 15
From 2 to 4 o’clock — Café Landtmann
From 4 to 5 o’clock — Café Rebhuhn
From 5 to 6 o’clock — Café Herrenhof
—Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World (Yale U Press, 2023) p 15
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