ART & Thoughts
Peter Seelig
Is Love an Art? Erich Fromm / Peter Seelig
IS LOVE an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one “falls into’ 5 if one is lucky? This little book is based on the former premise, while undoubtedly the majority of people today believe in the latter. Not that … Continue reading
Love at First Sight : Wislawa Szymborska / Peter Seelig
Love at First Sight They’re both convinced that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful but uncertainty is more beautiful still. Since they’d never met before, they’re sure that there’d been nothing between them. But what’s the word from the streets, staircases, hallways – perhaps they’ve passed each other by a million times? … Continue reading
Past One O’Clock : Vladimir Mayakovsky / Peter Seelig
1 She loves me-loves me not. My hands I pick and having broken my fingers fling away. So the first daisy-heads one happens to flick are plucked, and guessing, scattered into May. Let a cut and shave reveal my grey hairs. Let the silver of the years ring out endlessly ! Shameful common sense – … Continue reading
My Thoughts Fly To You – Love Poems: Carol Ann Duffy / Peter Seelig
Miles Away I want you and you are not here. I pause in this garden, breathing the colour thought is before language into still air. Even your name is a pale ghost and, though I exhale it again and again, it will not stay with me. Tonight I make you up, imagine you, your movements … Continue reading
I love You – Paul Eluard / Peter Seelig
Je t’aime Je t’aime pour toutes les femmes que je n’ai pas connues Je t’aime pour tous les temps où je n’ai pas vécu Pour l’odeur du grand large et l’odeur du pain chaud Pour la neige qui fond pour les premières fleurs Pour les animaux purs que l’homme n’effraie pas Je t’aime pour aimer … Continue reading
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland – Peter Seelig
❀ Peter Seelig “She Wants To Give Her Heart Madly” “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have … Continue reading
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