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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 20
Before Shaping
M.C. Richards,
Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
Centering: that act which precedes all others on the potter's wheel. The bringing of the clay into a...
Feb 16
The Song That Waits
Rabindranath Tagore,
Gitanjali
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
Feb 1
Remaining in Uncertainties
John Keats,
Letter to George and Tom Keats
I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in...
Jan 17
The Irritable Reaching
John Keats,
Letter to George and Tom Keats (December 21, 1817)
I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed...