Facets of a Diamond – Blog
In 1939-1940 Stravinsky delivered the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures at Harvard University. They were entitled Poetics of Music. I feel certain that whoever came up with the title was not a musician. For it is backwards.
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
Outside the supermarket I was immediately attracted to – by – some wondrous patterns on a white traffic line. Of course, I started to photograph them.
Dr. Diamond discusses how mood encompasses emotion. Every mood is a particular ratio of Matrophilia (love of the mother) to matrodeima (fear of the mother), which overarches the specific emotional problems we might have at a given moment.
Listening, loving, Max Goberman and Meistersinger, I find myself exclaiming “Magic!” What did I mean? What does magic mean?
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
I find it puzzling that no deep etymology has been found for our word soul, “the spiritual part of a person.” It first appears in Old English as sawol about 725. But from where did it come? We don’t know.