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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)
Street, Dresden
1908 (reworked 1919; dated on painting 1907
MoMA
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Patti Smith: ‘I didn’t expect to live a long time.’ Photograph: Claire Hatfield
(Source: Guardian)
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In essence, Swedenborg confers a new and elevated role on the poet by raising the function of the metaphor to the expression of the orderly universe, hidden to the scientist but revealed to the poet whose task is to work with likenesses. The poet then has access to a form of knowledge denied others.
— Eric O. Johannesson, The Novels of August Strindberg
