posted May 22, 2014 08:53 AM            

"When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension."

"Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon."

"You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others."

“Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.”

~Henry Rollins

posted June 02, 2014 10:13 AM            

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Think of love as a state of grace; not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.

There's no medicine that cures what happiness doesn't.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

posted June 02, 2014 10:15 AM            

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
~Gertrude Stein

posted July 04, 2014 07:46 AM            

By daily dying, I have come to be.

All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.

The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows.
We walk aware of what is far and close.
Here distance is familiar as a friend.
The feud we kept with space comes to an end.

~Theodore Roethke

posted July 05, 2014 12:57 PM            

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Originally posted by Pearlty:

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.

The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows.
We walk aware of what is far and close.
Here distance is familiar as a friend.
The feud we kept with space comes to an end.

~Theodore Roethke

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posted August 03, 2014 02:17 AM            

Your soul is like a painter's landscape where
charming masks in shepherd mummeries
are playing lutes and dancing with an air
of being sad in their fantastic guise.
Even while they sing, all in a minor key,
of love triumphant and life's careless boon,
they seem in doubt of their felicity,
their song melts in the calm light of the moon,
the lovely melancholy light that sets
the little birds to dreaming in the tree
and among the statues makes the jets
of slender fountains sob with ecstasy.

(translated by C. F. MacIntyre)
Paul Verlaine
Song by Debussy and poem by Paul Verlaine.

(music) Clair de Lune "Moonlight" (Claude Debussy song, Paul Verlaine poem) [4:34]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HY-RkeDl5g

posted August 08, 2014 09:18 AM            

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One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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posted November 05, 2014 09:33 AM            

In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

posted November 13, 2014 11:10 AM            

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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.
~Julia Cameron

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posted November 13, 2014 03:23 PM            

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Originally posted by Pearlty:
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.
~Julia Cameron

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posted November 18, 2014 03:58 AM            

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A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw TO, not FROM, ... pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.

Your artist is a child and it needs to be fed.

p. 34 > As blocked Creatives, we often sit on the sidelines critiquing those in the game. "He's not so talented," we may say of a current hot artist. And we may be right about that--- All too often, it is audacity and 'not talent' that moves an artist to center state...

"I could do that better, if only..."
You could do it better if only you would LET yourself do it.

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(I'm so glad I rediscovered these quotations earlier tonight... )

posted November 18, 2014 09:10 AM            

I'm looking forward to getting my creative groove back on. Winter is often the perfect time.

I've been busy with work lately..I don't know if you remember last time we spoke- I mentioned my business PC was acting up. I ended up taking the initiative and purchasing some new equipment...crossing my fingers and hoping the transfer would go smooth, which thank goodness it did. I was picturing if it didn't having to enter in a years worth of data manually.. So sigh of relief-