Quote of the Month…May -2017
“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
~ Lou Andreas-Salome; russian psychoanalyst and author.
“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
~ Lou Andreas-Salome; russian psychoanalyst and author.
“I think everything’s experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It’s no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music – until you say, ‘This is my song, or this is my composition’ – it’s all experimental, whether you like it or not.”
~ Bill Laswell; american musician and producer.
“At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.”
~ Walter Rudolf Hess; swiss physiologist.
“Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.”
~ Ferdinand de Saussure; swiss linguist and semiotician.
“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
~ Dr. Viktor Frankl; austrian neurolgist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.
“The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy.”
~ Abraham Maslow; american psychologist.
“The poet’s spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”
~ Salvatore Quasimodo; italian novelist and poet.
“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
~ Michel Foucault; french philosopher, social theorist, philologist and literary critic.
“Dreams are illusions, and we can’t let go of them because we would be dead.”
~ David Copperfield; american illusionist and stage magician.
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
~ Ernest Hemingway; american author and adventurer.