Reflections of a working writer and reader
Poetry presents the thing in order to convey the feeling. It should be precise about the thing and reticent about the feeling, for as soon as the mind [of the reader] responds to and connects with the the thing, the feeling shows in the words: this is how poetry enters deeply into us. If the poet presents directly feelings which overwhelm him, and keeps nothing back...he cannot...strengthen morality and refine culture, set heaven and earth in motion and call up the spirits. Wei T'ai
Expressionism in Film.
“We have worlds to conquer here,” said Walt Disney during the making of Fantasia.
Set to Modest Mussorgsky’s St John’s Night on the Bare Mountain, a tone poem themed around a witches’ sabbath, these frames from Disney’s Fantasia (1940) should make you want to run out and find a copy of the film:
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thanks for that – just suddenly what I need. Writing a book. You know when just the thing drops into your lap? Merry Solstice time from the dark northlands x
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jb says: Hi Janis. Yes, of course, I know the feeling well. Makes you feel like a magnet.
Weird Walt, eh. Strange, the route things take.