poeticliterature.com - Poetic Literature

Description: Poeticliterature.com is dedicated to both poetry and literature. The site contains many aphorisms and short passages of literature expressing general thoughts and practical wisdoms on philosophy and life as well as wide collections of anthologies of poems and prose selections from various authors. Launching ground is selective poetry and children stories of Irandought Mirhady. Irandought first poetry book titled Golbargy Bar Ab; and her first novel titled Carpet Weaver's Daughter as well as her first child

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The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art...For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter. But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and bends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke. Utility is the great idol of the time, to which all powers do homage an d all subjects are subservient.

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”