Lord God, grant me the grace to produce some fine Tweets
that will prove to me that I am not the least of men,
that I am not inferior to those I despise
"It's impossible for me to make a film about Hitler because of the idea of creating entertainment of this... That's why I have problem with Spielberg's 'Schindler's List' (1993)".
--- Michael Haneke
@bo_austin_ Also pouring champagne in a burgundy glass is totally fine. It'll lose the effervescence quicker, but you'll pick up more aromas. I generally don't taste in flutes unless they're super nice ones like the Riedels.
JD Vance's blog from 2005 tells of an emotional day where he "felt more like a female than I ever have or will," and explains he can't watch Zach Braff's 'Garden State' because "New Jersey's landscape is so much like Ohio's, the music is so relevant to my life right now."
In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist.
@jrostopovich Louise Glรผck is talking about Eliot, but I think it very well applies to why people admire Rilke. I think a similar conversion occurs in Rilke's later work where this deep sense of terror and alienation transforms, not through religion, but poetry, into some sort of transcendence
@jrostopovich 1. Mitchell is more new agey.
2. There's an excellent essay by Robert Hass at the beginning of the Mitchell selected works on Rilke's development and importance that I'd highly recommend. Unfortunately I don't have it handy.
3. The Duino Elegies and the Notebooks