April 2012
26 posts
Puis qu'en oubli
Machaut
Machaut - “Puis qu’en oubli sui de vous (Since I am Forgotten by You)”
written around 1363
When he was about sixty, Machaut fell in love with Peronne, a beautiful young noblewoman. For several years they exchanged poems and letters, but the difference in age eventually proved too great and their relationship ended in mutual disappointment. Machaut immortalized their love in his greatest narrative poem, Le Livre Dou Voir Dit (The Book of the True Poem, 1363–1365). Along with the narrative, the Voir Dit contains lyric poems and letters by Machaut and Peronne as well as nine musical compositions, including the song Puis qu’en oubli sui de vous (Since I am forgotten by you).
This melancholy work expresses Machaut’s “farewell to joy,” since he has been forgotten by his beloved.
“It should well be understood that art does not exist that if it prolongs a cry, a laughter or a complaint. (or “that art only exists if it prolongs a cry, a laughter or a complaint.” - translation proposed by brokenalphabet)
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Il faut bien comprendre que l’art n’existe que s’il prolonge un cri, un rire ou une plainte.
(brokenalphabet is right, FYI)” —Jean Cocteau (1889-1930, France)
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Il faut bien comprendre que l’art n’existe que s’il prolonge un cri, un rire ou une plainte.
(brokenalphabet is right, FYI)” —Jean Cocteau (1889-1930, France)
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
—Samuel Beckett (via creativerehab)
19:53
Ãlafur Arnalds
Ólafur Arnalds - “19:53”
“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.”
—Yohji Yamamoto (via sartorialsidney)
“There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.”
—Hugh Laurie (via thiscoffeedrenchedlife)
