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Mar 7
Capable of Either Being or Not Being
Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, Chapter 4 (trans. W.D. Ross)
All art is concerned with coming into being, i.e. with contriving and considering how something may ...
Feb 17
A Mania for Drawing
Katsushika Hokusai,
Postscript to 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji'
From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published...
Jan 25
The Artifice of Eternity
William Butler Yeats,
Sailing to Byzantium
That is no country for old men. The young