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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...
Feb 16
The Song That Waits
Rabindranath Tagore,
Gitanjali
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
Feb 7
The Poetic Faculty
Henry David Thoreau,
Walden
There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's buildi...
Jan 23
Property of Breath
Seneca,
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 84
We should follow, men say, the example of the bees, who flit about and cull the flowers that are sui...