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You know there’s so much good music out there, good poems, good art, you can just consume it like food. And then you think Art is like a Metaphor for the most innermost part of your being actualized. You know like dancing is a metaphor for effortless motion, and singing a metaphor for exuberance. Art kind of like points us in the direction of , “Hey, Life is over here.”<\/p>\n

Art is a symbol for what to do next, except no one ever does it, although they love to “entertain” the idea. And what is more no none will ever do it. The Goddess of the Ancient Temple of Sais says, “No one has yet lifted my veil.”<\/p>\n

Update: 12\/4\/11<\/strong><\/span> – I remember reading recently that Joseph Campbell said that “Art is the clothing of a revelation.” Now, if I’m thinking in terms of mythos, what do the monsters of Fairy Tales and Mythologies stand for? What are they metaphors for? They seem to be metaphors for something that is blocking, disrupting the revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
One Art<\/span><\/td>\n\u00ac\u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
by\u00a0Elizabeth Bishop<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The art of losing isn't hard to master;\r\nso many things seem filled with the intent\r\nto be lost that their loss is no disaster.\r\n\r\nLose something every day. Accept the fluster\r\nof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.\r\nThe art of losing isn't hard to master.\r\n\r\nThen practice losing farther, losing faster:\r\nplaces, and names, and where it was you meant\r\nto travel. None of these will bring disaster.\r\n\r\nI lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or\r\nnext-to-last, of three loved houses went.\r\nThe art of losing isn't hard to master.\r\n\r\nI lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,\r\nsome realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.\r\nI miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.\r\n\r\n--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture\r\nI love) I shan't have lied.  It's evident\r\nthe art of losing's not too hard to master\r\nthough it may look like (Write<\/em> it!) like disaster.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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