fear

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• Mar 11 The Abyss of Freedom Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (trans. Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl) I experience a sort of terror when, at the moment of setting to work and finding myself before the i...
• Feb 5 Something Helpless Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terr...
• Jan 27 The Blank Canvas's Idiotic Stare Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Theo van Gogh Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring at you like some imbecile. You don't know ...
• Jan 20 The Demon and the Windowpane George Orwell, Why I Write Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your o...