July 2011
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‘El Tango es la directa expresión de lo que comúnmente los poetas han...
– Jorge Luis Borges
“The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration”
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What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther...
– Egyptian Book of the Dead (via pax-caelestis)
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Ezra Pound, The Art of Poetry No. 5
Interviewed by Donald Hall
The Paris Review - theparisreview.org
Ezra Pound, 1962
Since his return to Italy, Ezra Pound has spent most of his time in the Tirol, staying at Castle Brunnenburg with his wife, his daughter Mary, his son-in-law Prince Boris de Rachewiltz, and his grandchildren. However, the mountains in this resort country near Merano are cold in...
Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps:
the silence of paintings. Language...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “On Music,” 1918, trans. Robert Bly (via proustitute)
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