"You Were Supposed to Sing Or Dance While the Music Was Being Played" by Robert Peake

Monday, October 22. 2007

You Were Supposed to Sing Or Dance While the Music Was Being Played

The following video (via Valerie, via Chris) seems like as good an answer as any to the question of why, in the middle of a high-tech career, I signed up for art school. While this particular piece deals with music, I find it equally applicable to the ongoing question: “why poetry?”

More Alan Watts—illuminated by the animators of South Park—is available at FreshMinds, including a great piece on perception and the “language of madness” in common between poetry and music.

Posted by Robert Peake in Life, Poetry, MFA at 17:04 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I arrived at forty but forgot to get off the train!

#1 Dave Browne on 2007-10-23 15:58 (Reply)

Never too late!

#1.1 Robert on 2007-10-23 16:05 (Reply)

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We love this here at our house, too.

Peace,

M

#2 Michelle Bitting on 2007-10-23 20:57 (Reply)

That must be the house of singing and dancing through life.

#2.1 Robert on 2007-10-24 08:31 (Reply)

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