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Some Quixote for our Quote of the Week

“‘Oh sir,’ cried [Don Quixote’s] niece, ‘please have [the books of poetry] burned like the rest, because it could well happen that once my uncle gets over his chivalry illness... Read More

Jung and Wilde: this week’s Commonplace Book

We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the... Read More

This week's Commonplace Book: Katsushika Hokusai

From the age of five I have had a passion for sketching the form of things, from about the age of fifty I showed a number of drawings, yet of... Read More
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Robert Irwin: This week's Commonplace Book

It was mostly a question of just staying in the studio and simply not going out. Whether I did anything or didn’t do anything, whether I was able to work... Read More
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Mozart, Eliot, Shelley and Davis

If I sing something out of my opera, I have to stop at once, for this stirs my emotions.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.T.S. Eliot Invention, it... Read More