http://nwpr.org/post/lifes-minutiae-gain-new-magnitude-dunns-lines-poetry
"One of the points that I make in the essay is the similarity between
poetry and basketball is a chance to be better than yourself. To
transcend yourself, if you're hot that day. And that happens in writing
in our best moments. Where we find ourselves saying what we didn't know
we knew, or couldn't have said in any other circumstance.
So those are the moments in poetry I live for now. I can't play basketball anymore."
To being better than ourselves, in whichever ways we can.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Ustad Farida Mahwash, On Love (And Music)
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=256562024
"Art in general, she says, and singing especially, is all about love. I am a messenger of love. It doesn't matter if you're Jewish, Christian, Buddhist or Muslim. I love humans, all humans."
In the simplest of definitions, is this what art all comes down to?
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