Sylvie

INTERVIEWER

Do you share your work in progress with anyone? Have you had good relationships with editors?

NELSON

I do have a couple of friends, including Ben Lerner, whom I might send some things to. The fundamental question that Ben and I often have for each other is “Is this alive?” or “Where is it alive?” We made an exchange of The Argonauts and

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“Why was New York City ballet so great?” she asks. Well, there was George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Sure. But, that audience .

“There was such a high level of connoisseurship, of everything. That made the culture better. A very discerning audience...is as important to the culture as artists. It’s exactly as important.”

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I journal a lot. I break down all of my thought processes. I think I apply a very analytical lens to my own thinking and I kind of modify it. Because it’s so interesting, you can control what you think, you can control how you think, therefore you can control who you are.

And especially as a young person, I’m 22 so with neuroplasticity on my side I

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But hope is an extremely hard disease to cure. And often all it takes is a small exposure to a story that reminds us of what we are capable of, and the power of it comes rushing back

I believe if art has a purpose (and often it does not and that’s good too), but if it does it is to shine the best of ourselves back at us, so we may remember it.

Ooof. Albert Einstein's letter to his daughter Lieserl ❤️

When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.

I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to... See more

Dr. Fancourt calls engaging in the arts “the forgotten fifth pillar of health,” alongside diet, sleep, exercise and nature. Yet, we have reduced it to a form of entertainment, she writes in her new book, “Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives.”

And you don’t have to be good at any of these things to reap the health benefits, she added.... See more