About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #715948 added January 19, 2011 at 5:06pm Restrictions: None
Happy 172nd Birthday, Paul Cezanne!
I’m not the one to keep track of birthdays, let alone for someone who has been gone so many years ago, but I saw Google’s caption and couldn’t help myself. I don’t know what it is about Cezanne’s paintings that makes them move me like Beethoven does in music. Maybe it is his exploratory brushstrokes, the degree of abstraction, or the sensitivity in his art, but what ever it is, I am glad he was born.
And since I decided as a new year’s resolution to find and concentrate on something good in each day, this birthday is it for today.
So, Happy Birthday, Cezanne!
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