Questions and answers

Dearest Iman,

Thank you for selecting me to be a part of your questionnaire. I very much enjoyed responding to all of your questions and I hope you shall find pleasure in reading my answers as well.

Have a lovely week xx

the poet muse

1. What is your favorite piece of art?

The silent and unaffected beauty of Pompeii’s Flora, a Roman fresco from the 1st century A.D. It’s a delicate work of art, expressing a quiet acceptance of life and beauty as spring and transiency.
 
2. What is your favorite novel?

Perhaps Narziß und Goldmund (Narcissus and Goldmund), I have adored it since the tender years of my childhood, I was merely 12 when I first read it. It was written by one of the authors I most love and admire, Hermann Hesse.

3. What is your favorite song/band?

Possibly Liszt’s Consolation No.3 in D flat Major, a feeling of impossible longing for this song preserves even after having played it countless times myself. My favourite musical ensemble is currently “Le Poème Harmonique”, they play mostly baroque and early music.

4. What would you love to study, despite if it’s practical or not.

My formal and leisure times are mostly dedicated to the Arts and Letters, so in the future I shall probably like to read something different, such as Astrophysics or Chinese Medicine - I find both particularly intriguing.

5. What is your favorite film era and film?

I find the 40s film noir epoque dauntingly beautiful. My favourite film is Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice), by Italian director Luchino Visconti.

6. Which character in a novel or film do you most relate to?

The poet chevalier René d’Aramis de Vannes (Aramis), from Alexandre Dumas Les Trois Mousquetaires.

7. What is the worst trait in a person? In yourself?

Inauthenticity, from where greater faults derive. In myself, probably my melancholic temperament.

8. What do you like to do when it’s raining? When it’s sunny?

I like to visit the library when it’s raining, or staying home and brewing a cup of Earl Grey, reading while listening to music or playing my violin. When it’s sunny I enjoy long strolls on the park, having orchid tea, visiting museums and writing by the rosarium of the botanical gardens.

9. What piece of art do you think is overrated?

Some modern artists in general are overrated, capital sums seem to be of greater importance than artistic merit and quality, take Andy Warhol for example. Though I love some modern movements, I find the latest ones abhorrent. I understand art as an impetus, and that implies a necessary freedom, however that does not make one as an artist indulgent nor one’s work the fruit of effortlessness. There is a great difference between authenticity and carelessness.

10. If you could move right now, where would it be too?

To the far East, and enjoy the flowers and musk of late spring in Beijing or Kyoto.

11. In what event in history do you wish you were present at? 

That might’ve been extremely dangerous, I could alter the course of history by my being there! Perhaps during the creative effusiveness of Paris in the 60s, that culminated with the May of 1968 protest.

lamouroulafolie:

The tagging game:

Rule 1: Post the rules

Rule 2: Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then make 11 new ones

Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to your post

Rule 4: Let them know you’ve tagged them

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