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21 | they ‘I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.’

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"the secret of it all is to write . . .without waiting for a fit time and place."--Walt Whitman

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Constantin Brancusi, self portrait in his studio, Paris, 1934.

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Europa ‘51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952)

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“In [Plato] the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer. His daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts; as the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones. His patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance, edged by an irony so subtle that it stings and paralyzes, adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plato

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‘Moreover, in popular experience, everything good is on the highway.’

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience

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The Old Place 2000 Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard

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french poster of Mixed Blood

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from Pound’s Praise of Ysolt

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ceyx and alcyone

Ovid, Metamorphoses Book XI. (tr. A.D. Melville)

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from the prado, a gift from a friend

El Greco, El caballero de le mano en el pecho

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page of proto-modernism

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

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a truthful account of virtue and vices

Emerson, Heroism

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extract from the logbook of monsieur teste, paul valéry

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Warhol, Untitled from Flowers, 1970

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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch