“In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.” IfsTryingBeautifulForceStepsBrokenKeysShotsFlowPerformancesPianoHittingReally BeautifulArcheryNot Pretty Author:Miranda Leek
“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.” ThinkingMenArtAgeBeautifulLiteratureSoundFriendshipIntellectualTraditionPerformancesRipeBrethren Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life
“I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.” ThinkingNeedsMeanEndsHardAgeBeautifulYoungPleasureBoysTeachPerformancesConnectedIntimacyAggressiveYoung AgeReciprocityTouch Me Author:Eve Ensler
“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.” HumansBodyAmericaBeautifulDesireArtistAnimalPowerfulAirPerformancesHorseDifficultyMusicalNarrativeFulfillmentLatinLatin AmericaSuspendedDebutUnderwaterHumans And Animals Author:Mark Doty
“Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.” KnowsWorldWantI CanBookBeautifulGivenLossGriefJourneyFindingsPagesPerformancesGenerousAgain And AgainFabulousPackagesEmily Author:Dorothea Lasky