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Music is a powerful emotional communicator, with distinct emotional connections for different musical “modes” in different cultures. A recent cross-cultural study has discovered that tonal patterns used in music to communicate sentiments are stable across cultures and are comparable to those .....
Poetry is a genre of literature in which abstraction and the beauty of words are often celebrated. It’s so important because it makes us understand the world around us and enjoy it. The power of poetry lies in its ability to shine a light on the world “sideways,” such that the t.....
The Frog in the Well – an Instructive story There was a frog that lived in a shallow well. ” Look how well off I am here ! ” he told a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. ” I can hop along the coping of the well when I go out, and rest by […]
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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and the fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim, either at use or beauty. Thus in ou.....
Shanti Niketan, April 12, 1919 Dear Mahatmaji, Power in all it’s forms is irrational, it is like the horse that drags the carriage blindfolded. The moral element in it is only represented in the man who drives the horse. Passive resistance is a force which is not necessarily moral in itself.....
Carisbrooke, April 17th and 18th, 1817 My dear Reynolds, Ever since I wrote to my Brothers from Southhampton I have been in a taking, and at this moment I am about to become settled, for I have unpacked my books, put them into a snug corner pinned up Haydon Mary Queen Scotts, and Milton with [&he.....
Hampstead Sunday 22 December 1818 My dear Brothers, I must crave your pardon for not having written ere this . . . The excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with Beauty & Truth Examine King Lear & .....
THE MIND. I It is an axiom in mental philosophy that we can think of nothing which we have not perceived. When I say that we can think of nothing, I mean, we can imagine nothing, we can reason of nothing, we can remember nothing, we can foresee nothing. The most astonishing combinations of poetry.....
One evening in the winter, some years ago, my brother came to my rooms in the city of Chicago bringing with him a book by Gertrude Stein. The book was called Tender Buttons and, just at that time, there was a good deal of fuss and fun being made over it in American newspapers. I […]
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A dialogue. Persons: Cyril and Vivian. Scene: the Library of a country house in Nottinghamshire. Cyril (coming in through the open window from the terrace). My dear Vivian, don’t coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mi.....
It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic tempera.....