from that incredible period when Rilke became a genius. Rilke's influence reminds me, w no basis of when TRP became one--and interiority became a constant theme.

Jochen Stremmel jstremmel at gmail.com
Mon Jun 17 14:31:52 CDT 2019


John Ruskin (1856)

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to *see*
something and tell what it *saw* in a plain way. Hundreds of people can
talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To
see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”

Am Mo., 17. Juni 2019 um 20:09 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>:

> I organized a town reading aloud of Mrs, Dalloway yesterday,
> counterprogramming
> against the day that is Bloomsbury.
>
> I did not remember how often the invocation to Look!---Woolf has in it. At
> life. Some wonderful
> words and repeated uses.
>
> Got a copy of John Updike's first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, for a number
> of reasons, one of which
> is to prepare a plist post about it and 1984, which John hisself invokes
> in the two---2!--reissue introductions.
>
> But the first word of the novel is   "Look!"
>
>
> The more opinions you have, the less you see". ----Wim Wenders
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:45 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Reminds me of what Josef Albers said 1933, arriving in the US of A, in
>> his very basic English answering the question what he wanted to teach at
>> the Black Mountain College: "To open eyes".
>>
>> Am Mo., 17. Juni 2019 um 15:46 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <
>> mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> "I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me
>>> more deeply and doesn't stop where it used to. I have an interior that I
>>> never knew of..." Rilke
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