Tag Archives: Beethoven

Odets: On Beethoven and Cezanne

Entry from Journal January 27, 1940 Perhaps this constant uncovering of the self is one of the prime impulses in the creative mechanism, it and the constant effort to relate the self to persons, things — a woman — outside … Continue reading

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Famous Epitaphs/Last Words

Famous Epitaphs A reader sent me a bit of trivia she thought I might be interested in (she was right!) John Keats, great poet, who died in 1821, wrote his own epitaph, which is as follows: “Here lies one whose … Continue reading

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