Thread by @TomLondon6

MUSIC by Raymond Carver

Franz Liszt eloped with Countess Marie D'Agoult,
who wrote novels. Polite society washed its hands
of him, and his countess-novelist whore.
Liszt gave her three children, and music.
Then went off with Princess Wittgenstein.

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Cosima, Liszt's daughter, married
the conductor, Hans von Bülow.
But Richard Wagner stole her. Took her away
to Bayreuth. Where Liszt showed up one morning.
Long white hair flouncing.
Shaking his fist. Music. Music!
Everybody grew more famous.

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"It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar"
- Raymond Carver

"Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came"
Raymond Carver

(I love the darkness of Carver's short stories)

They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.

Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.

Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Now for the other life. The one
without mistakes.
- Lou Lipsitz
Quoted by Raymond Carver