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"It's not where you take things from-- it's where you take them to." -Jean-Luc Godard
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“Is New York the most beautiful city on earth? It is not far from it. No urban nights are like the nights there. I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on magical powers. Squares and squares of flame, set and cut into the ether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
Ezra Pound, 1913
Love is love, and there will never be too much
A lucky man named Bill Magee tells Maria Popova:
“Back in 2000, a teenage Fiona Apple fan named Bill Magee decided to approach the singer after a gig and hand her a letter. In it, the 16-year-old spoke of his school’s gay-straight alliance — of which he was a member — and asked if she could possibly reply with a sentence or two in its support.
The next week, the following handwritten letter was delivered by FedEx to Bill’s house.”
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“I had to get a job, and of course, the job was The Godfather. That made me be something I didn’t know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director. If you take a young Long Island Italian guy and give him endless possibilities, then you’ll see what kind of crazy things I did in the course of my career.”
Francis Ford Coppola, reflecting on his film career at the Toronto International Film Festival. Full article here.
If you’re John Lennon, this is what your “To Do” list would look like, and it would be sold for at least $5,849.00 on this site.
Found on Brain Pickings
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anais Nin
