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Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Language of Sounds
Music — it expresses not only feelings,But also mysteries that instruct us.Truth lies in the powerful language of sounds —The question is whether we hear its depth.In early Islam music was frowned uponBecause of the worldliness of most people.But Ršmî brought it to...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Esthetics
Someone said to me that Shrî Shankara, the jnânî,Was no esthete, that he remained within the strict realmOf metaphysics, that questions of beauty were foreignTo him, that he was and remained the pure wise man.Ye mathematicians, break not the rodOn him who speaks about...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Tempora, Mores
Visual art: the Renaissance destroyedWhat the wisdom of the Middle Ages had faithfully protected.Baroque: it belongs surely to the worstThat empty-minded artists ever hatched.Admire not the cold ostentation of architecture,Nor paintings with their sultry...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Art of the Dwelling Place
Japanese golden screens and kakemonos —Some of the best things that artists have given us.The gloomy oil-paintings that fill museums —Who would want to have them in his home?Do not say, “this is not important”. Interior spacesHave an effect on us, they shape our...
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