Essays of Jonathan Steffen

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In terms of the means of its production, poetry is one of the most economical of art forms. All you need is pen and paper.

A Life Lived “To the Utmost Limit”: Comanche of the 7th

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The Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas houses Comanche; the stuffed hide of a 15-hands buckskin-colored horse with a black dorsal stripe.

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The Song of Fernando Pessoa

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The spirit of Fernando Pessoa permeates modern Portugal like a watermark a sheet of letter-paper.

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Riding to Tomorrow

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Every action we perform has an influence, creating the conditions for positive or negative outcomes in the future. Every day as riders we are on a journey towards the ride of tomorrow.

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The Prison of Style

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Mucha became more than a well-known artist: he became a category in his own right.

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The Fragrance of the Unread Poem

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“The orchids grow in the woods and they let out their fragrance even if there is no-one to appreciate it,” said Confucius. That does not mean that the fragrance does not exist.

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The Secrets Of A Guitar

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When you listen to Django, you feel that music can overcome anything.

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Across The High, Uncharted Seas

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Perhaps he realised that this poor material, this bitter little joke, bore within itself the soul not only of a unique masterpiece but of every novel that was to follow in its wake, like a flock of seagulls languidly following a battleship across the high, uncharted seas.

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A Thousand Other Hearts And Minds

And although probably not part of François’ original vision, the château seems to me to represent not only the nature of artistic endeavour, which is never realised in its full purity but always subject to compromise, but also the nature of the artist as such – incapable of becoming him- or herself without the work of a thousand other, often unknown, hearts and minds.

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No World Without Verona Walls

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It is the physiognomy of a talented and ambitious but firmly grounded individual, someone who can draft a contract as easily as he can pen a monologue.

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