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nowaypablo  ·  3867 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Give me a great quote from something you're reading, have read recently.

Es Muss Sein. -Beethoven, then Minas Kundera as a gorgeous introduction that carries across as a theme to his well-known book, "The Eternal Lightness of Being."

It Must Be, showing (imo) that the heavy, tremendous power of Beethoven and his String Quartet No16 could shake a concert hall with gravitas and the bellows of its significance... meanwhile.. calling out that this storm is all but a performance; the compositional pioneer is just an artist moreover a human, and it simply must be, immaterial and insignificant.. so why not make it loud.

Wrote my term paper about it, took me way too long to find that book. Im a cheesy dude.





OftenBen  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I only appreciated this quote properly like 2 minutes ago.

nowaypablo  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Check out this poem by Frank O'Hara, I believe _refugee_ showed it to me, but it could have been lil:

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I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab

which is typical

and not just of modern life

mud clambers up the trellis of my nerves

must lovers of Eros end up with Venus

muss es sein? es muss nicht sein, I tell you

how I hate disease, it's like worrying

that comes true

and it simply must not be able to happen

in a world where you are possible

my love

nothing can go wrong for us, tell me

   [1960]