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[Anny Ballardini]

sent by Ingrid Wendt
sent by Olga Broumas:

I find it very moving, and think you will, too.   A few minutes ago I tried sending the audio file with this message to everyone, but it's too big and won't be accepted by the wompo server.   If anyone is interested in hearing it, please backchannel.

Ingrid   (idwendt at comcast.net)

When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you have to think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgement of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself. And I think the world tends to forget that this is the ultimate significance of the body of work each artist produces. It is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life. 

Stanley Kunitz
1905-2006
from The Wild Braid, W.W. Norton, 2005


idwendt at comcast.net
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Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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