From R.H. Blyth: “What then is the function of poverty in life, reality, poetry? Poverty means the closest possible approximation of these three things which in our ordinary manner of living are separated.”
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Quote of the day 05/04/25
From Walt Whitman: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Quote of the day 04/28/25
From William Blake: “Man’s perceptions are not bound by Organs of Perception. He perceives more than Sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover. The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.”
Quote of the day 04/25/25
From William Blake: “Everything possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.”
Quote of the day 04/21/25
From William Wordsworth: One impulse from a vernal woodMay teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,Than all the sages can.
Quote of the day 04/20/25
From William Wordsworth: “and we shall findA pleasure in the dimness of the stars.”
Quote of the day 04/18/25
From William Wordsworth: Sweet is the lore which nature brings;Our meddling intellectMisshapes the beauteous forms of things—We murder to dissect.
Quote of the day 04/16/25
From William Wordsworth: “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
Quote of the day 03/14/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Pater says, ‘All art aspires towards the condition of music.’ Action does the same, and when it reaches it, it is the activity of Zen.”
Quote of the day 03/10/25
From Francis Bacon: “Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils.”
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