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What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. His fate is like that of the unfortunate victims whom the tyrant Phalaris imprisoned in a brazen bull and slowly tortured over a steady fire; their cries could not reach the tyrant’s ears so as to strike terror into his heart; when they reached his ears they sounded like sweet music. And men crowd about the poet and say to him: “Sing for us soon againâ€; that is as much to say: “May new sufferings torment your soul, but may your lips be formed as before; for the cries would only frighten us, but the music is delicious.†And the critics come, too, and say: “Quite correct, and so it ought to be according to the rules of aesthetics.†Now it is understood that a critic resembles a poet to a hair; he only lacks the suffering in his heart and the music upon his lips. Lo, therefore, I would rather be a swineherd from Amager, and be understood by the swine, than be a poet and be misunderstood by men. - s. kiekegaard
bob dylan, skip james, the velvet underground/lou reed's solo work/john cale's solo work, miles davis, blind lemon jefferson, radiohead, leadbelly, marty robbins, john coltrane, nick drake, robert johnson, theloneus monk, howlin' wolf, jimi hendrix, the beatles, professor longhair, duke ellington, carol king, blind willia mctell, b. b. king, chuck berry, blind willie johnson, john fahey, the doors, the rolling stones, the pixies, jelly roll morton, mississippi john hurt, ry cooder, joy division, son house, leonard cohen, david bowie, cream/jack bruce's solo work, jaki byard, willie brown, bjork, nico, simon and garfunkel, and pink floyd, kid bailey, taj mahal, buddy holly, portishead, lonnie johnson, the zombies, roxy music, the cure, ben e king, cornelius, patti smith.
harvey, china town, swimming with sharks, taxi driver, american beauty, the deer hunter, transformers [the movie], the shining, full metal jacket, the usual suspects, memento, adaptation, the godfather, se7en, silence of the lambs, dumb & dumber, vertigo, edward scissor hands, a clockwork orange, 2001: a space odyssey, bladerunner, it's a wonderful life, the last unicorn, dirty harry, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the good the bad and the ugly, hang 'em high, leon the professional, fear and loathing in las vegas, high plains drifter, 12 monkeys, fight club, the sandlot, the fugitive, road to perdition, punch drunk love, la confidential, deathrace 2000, batman, the game, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the shawshank redemption, mystic river, million dollar baby, and the list goes on
t.s. eliot, ovid, w.b. yeats, li po, tu fu, ezra pound, james joyce, william carlos williams, kurt vonnegut, john donne, geoffrey chaucer, arthur rimbaud, charles baudelaire, john steinbeck, carl g. jung, haruki murakami, soren kierkegaard, alexander pope, william s. burroughs, d.h. lawrence, william shakespeare, allen ginsberg, walt whitman, ford madox ford, robert browning, ovid, thomas hardy, marianne moore, h.d., and etc.
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