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Poetry, Art, Music, Performance—wherever the various arts intersect/collide

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@PeterBrannen1 Amazing piece! You'll find an in-depth discussion of it here on Essay Daily: https://t.co/xCkGXj19cT

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I have a friendly disposition but am forgetful, though I tend to forget only important things.
—John Ashbery, from “A Nice Presentation”

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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 https://t.co/DIW4rW19gw

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
—G.K. Chesterton, from "A Piece of Chalk"

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New neighbors living under the back door awning

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Wallace Stevens’s poem “Of Mere Being” contemplates the great unknown. . . Commentary by A O Scott: https://t.co/Hg3KBooT2b

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@civetta Ha! Many years ago, I lived above a yoga/dance studio, where a folk dance group met every Sunday evening. For 3 long hours, they stomped and clapped in odd time signatures, taking my "sunday scaries" to another level!

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address— source of "of the people, by the people, for the people"—is 272 words long and took a skinny 2 minutes to deliver.

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"At the Movies with John Ashbery"
An essay by John Yau:
https://t.co/LOSbypM4uV

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Froggy begs for belly rubs while I'm doing yoga

[Garth Greenwell @GarthGreenwell]

“Then I just stopped listening to everybody, and everybody stopped talking to me,” she said. “I was getting very little feedback.” https://t.co/9rdIjJbnud

[Art21 @art21]

When a flood damaged years’ worth of artworks kept in storage, Sophie Calle decided to embrace the decay.

Art21 goes underground to attend the funeral for Calle's pieces.

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Brueghel the painter
concerned with it all has chosen
a winter-struck bush for his
foreground to
complete the picture

—William Carlos Williams https://t.co/qSDJdctt8l

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530–1569)
The Hunters in the Snow, 1565

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@marysia_cc William Carlos Williams on this painting

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Robert Louis Stevenson with a thoughtful New Year's resolution:

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More wisdom from Stevenson's New Year's/Christmas essay:

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good: myself."

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"Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much":—surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed."

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Robert Louis Stevenson's end-of-year refections, from "A Christmas Sermon":

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"We are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well. Here is a pleasant thought for the year’s end or for the end of life. Only self-deception will be satisfied…"