Every single day, one should listen to a little song, read a good poem, look at a fine painting and, if possible, say a few sensible words

Every single day, one should listen to a little song, read a good poem, look at a fine painting and, if possible, say a few sensible words.

Goethe

http://www.iclassics.com/hearItFirstHome

http://www.poems.com/

www.google.com

http://www.bartleby.com/232/210.html (The Hill, Rupert Brooke)

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our infirm Delight

The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightening to the Children eased

With explanation kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind-

Emily Dickinson

Letter Four: Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

Rilke

From the Garden of Proserpine, Swinburne

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/dowson/index.html (Ernest Dowson’s poems)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9AE8QQfx_E&feature=related (Dreams, Cranberries)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyp5we2ySDo&NR=1 (Zombie, Cranberries)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEaxoSMUgXI&feature=related (No need to argue, Cranberries)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Cd5LwV6eg (1973, James Blunt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnqvjD7Kxs4 (Boston, Augustana)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PWfB4lurT4 (Bubbly, Colbie Caillat)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qllpkliWhtk (Jenny don’t be hasty (live), Paolo Nutini)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0yeeP1X2E&feature=related (Rehab, Paolo Nutini)

Living with Music (playlists from the New York Times)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnR9PRg2Ox0 (Third Rate Romance)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=quxB0y9wquk (Wittgentsein)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR-dJHrmtHY (reggae)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7EgsNfzsy4 (Carry On)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM (1234)

Caravaggio http://www.artbible.info/art/work/caravaggio.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU77Hj25AVI (Griffin House Out of his mind)