… but for me, all the arts, must above all be emotional — and act upon the heart. When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Tag: Andrei Tarkovsky
Becoming intimate with fear
—Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. (Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten.) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value * Maggie Nelson: I’ve often written about things that terrify me—likely out of compulsion more than hope for comfort, or catharsis; as Peter Handke says near the end of his horrified memoir of his mother’s suicide, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams,…
On being disappointed
– how come something like this could happen … ? I had so much been looking forward to reading this book, expecting it to be a feast – at the level of my best reading experiences. But there just wasn’t any sparkle between us, I felt as if I was trying to light wet wood,…
Melancholia
Yesterday dianajhale published a beautiful post showing spring sketches inspired by nature and by Andrei Tarkovsky. Her post led me to discover the Polaroid’s of Tarkovsky, which I haven’t seen before. It was a remarkable discovery; Tarkovsky’s wonderful melancholic images struck a chord, still reverberating. If I were to explain why these pictures hit my heart, I would…
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