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''this is one moment, but know that another shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy''

[liz 🎐 @lizetteratura]

i love anne carson and i love poetry and i love how this made all the awful people have a meltdown

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Woke up in a cold sweat from a dream in which Melvyn Bragg asked me to give a quick definition of modernism

[Kai @dg_kaii]

I just bought these from the store and the cashier said “The whole of life is probably in those two books”

[Kehinde 🇳🇬 @kalonge93]

100 years of Coltrane. A thread of some of my favorite Coltrane related ephemera and archival finds over the years

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

Vijay Iyer on why John Coltrane relentlessly practiced for hours and hours every day.

[Evan Welsh @eustacesilly]

If we’re being honest with ourselves this is the greatest american band

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hahahaha wtf

[pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot]

Pasolini's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW was so static that I could hardly wait for that loathsome prissy young man to get crucified. (1966)

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1971 is just clearly the best year for music

[Emmett Stinson @EmmettStinson]

Henry Green described the modernist and historical avant-gardes as ‘the cats who licked the plate clean’. We still live in this historical condition.

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

William Blake

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Remembering reading Beckett's Trilogy last year, and just how many unbelievably good lines there were...

[WolfBCK @Wolf_BCK]

God I love him so much

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the two albums from this trio are prob my favourite jazz of the 2020s and some of my favourite music full stop - gorgeous stuff https://t.co/vsvsxXMBaR

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https://t.co/4RFC2hnFxp

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Yesss https://t.co/fZPoszaYNV

[Kali @Kali_de_Armas]

Thomas Mann on loneliness, 'Death in Venice'

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@LackOfView Ohh wow this sounds great thanks! The cantos did p clearly have a lot to do with the occult/mystic/'arcanum' side of religion and philosophy

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Finished. A failure that still manages to brush up against an ultimate serenity, for all its fire and brimstone.

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Lets do this

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@Isaaccampos32 Yes! Cathay is gorgeous stuff - there's a real intensity to the compression he achieves in it

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@maxdaniellawton Haha I think so, and thats not to say its not a great poem. As Pound says himself for all its moments of beauty it "doesn't cohere" (unlike, say, 4 Quartets), and as far as the "to move/to delight/to teach" refrain he repeats in the poem, the "teaching" is very wrongheaded imo...