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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Knowable By All Persons
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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Tagged Aid, Art, Counsel, First Prinicples, Government, Honest, Legible, Pursue, Right, Thomas Jefferson, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: All Art Is Autobiographical
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” – Federico Fellini, film director, and writer (20 Jan 1920-1993)
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Tagged Art, Autobiography, Federico Fellini, Oyster, Pearl, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Art Like A Holiday Gives Mankind A Chance To See the World Differently and Change Points of View
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940)
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Tagged Art, Change, Different, Holiday, Mankind, Opportunity, Paul Klee, Point of View, See, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Poetry Is the Art of Creating Imaginary Gardens Filled With Real Toads
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” – Marianne Moore, poet (15 Nov 1887-1972)
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Tagged Art, Create, Imaginary Gardens, Marianne Moore, Poetry, Real Toads, Thought For the Day
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Broken
It is what it is… Broken by Michael Romani When to myself a danger I’m perhaps better as a stranger Love can be funny that way I have too many dragons to slay Fixed hard to this reality Beginning to … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Believe, Broken, Capable, Child, Conceive, Conception, Connection, Courage, Danger, Deception, Doubt, Dragons, Dream, Eternity, Eventuality, Fly, Free, Greed, Imperfection, Key, Know, Love, Man, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Puzzle, Real, Reality, Reveal, Self-Perception, Sought, Spoken, Stranger, Wisdom, Wish
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Thought For the Day: Art Is To Be Loved Not Always Understood
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” – Claude Monet, painter (14 Nov 1840-1926)
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Tagged Art, Claude Monet, Discuss, Love, Necessary, Thought For the Day, Understand
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The Greatest of All Time
Often in discussing sports and things, people talk in terms of who is the greatest of all time. That’s never made much sense to me. We can never know who is up and coming for example as to why… The … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, Art, Braggadocio, Century, Collective, Cultural touchstone, Eloquent, Excellent, False Choice, False Claims, Front Cover, Greatest of All Time, History, Invective, Legacy, Music, Objective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Reflective, Rhyme, Sports, Truth Unseen, Warrior, Word
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Ekphrastic Workshop – Sparkle Dim
The Tuesday night short poetry workshop tonight has to do with the Ekphrastic form of deriving a poem based on a work of art including digital art/photographs. From this I came up with the following: Sparkle Dim Ekprhastic by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Blessed, Dance, Dim, Ekprhastic, Free, Glowing, Gratitude, Growing, Karma, Love, Photograph, Platitide, Poem, Poetry, Share, Shatter, Smile, Sparkle, Understand, Workshop
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Chinese Shelf Help
Some say that the change in Chinese away from satire and critique is just the chase of the almighty dollar. That seems a deficit explanation given the official statements by the Chinese government. I am no expert. But, this poem … Continue reading
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