Monday, March 27, 2017
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Born today... Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), March 20, 43 BC
All things are always changing,
But nothing dies. The Spirit comes and goes,
Is housed wherever it wills, shifts residence
From beasts to men, form men to beasts, but always
it keeps on living. As the pliant wax
Is stamped with new designs, and is no longer
What once it was, but changes form, and still
Is pliant wax, so do I teach that spirit
Is evermore the same, though passing always
To ever-changing bodies.
-Metamorphoses Book XV 165-8
image: God Pan, woodcut from Metamorphoses 1498
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Metamorphoses,
Ovid,
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)... Ophelia, white marble 1880
Element
They all swim in this
water
Fish
with big eyes
and sad mouths
swim around me
sad
without hands
holding hands
fish
in the water
in which I
drown
by Hilde Domin (1909 - 2006
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Hilde Domin,
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mythology,
Ophelia,
poem,
poetry,
Sarah Bernhardt,
sculpture,
Symbol and myth,
symbolism
Monday, February 6, 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Monday, January 9, 2017
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Alexandre de Riquer (1856 – 1920) ~ Death Song (Canto de la muerte), Pen and ink, ink wash and graphite pencil on paper c1890 (1856 – 1920) ~ Death Song (Canto de la muerte), Pen and ink, ink wash and graphite pencil on paper c1890
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
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