Posts tagged ‘The art of poetry’

Jul 20

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“The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.” — Nostradamus

Will it be wine and roses, or milk and honey?

Back when TVs and phones sprouted rotary dials and hearses grew tail fins, Marshall McLuhan observed: We look at the present through a rear-view mirror, march backwards into the future.
What kind of future are we backing into at present? For answers, a great jovialist consults a prophet of doom.

“For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.”

— Nostradamus

Jul 2

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“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi

Following our previous post, “True Tile Tales,” we picked these tales up off the cutting-room floor, and the tiles came with them. A little bird told us they wouldn’t lie. So, truth be told…

Some stories are true that never happened.

— Elie Wiesel

Jun 19

“There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? … To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

Our myths glow, as tiles made of clay and compassion, with the fire of gods.

“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.” —Auguste Rodin

May 29

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“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Waiting for a gift from the sea” is a metaphor of practicing patience as its own reward, as virtue must be, for goodness’ sake. If inner strength and endurance are among all good things that come to those who wait, well, a gift from the sea is worth waiting for.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

— Saint Francis de Sales

May 12

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“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

When there’s nothing else he’d rather do, a writer on a raft, idles on the tide. This series of picture poetry is an artist’s impressions of words which emerge from idling well.

It is better to idle well than to work poorly.

— Anon

Apr 6

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“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

To welcome this spring’s new beginning of time for every purpose under the sun, the task of the arts, like that of the sciences, is to say something about Nature.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

— Niels Bohr

Feb 17

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“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.” ― Patrick Leigh Fermor

Creative vacuum
Cacophony of silence
All the rest is noise

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

— Niels Bohr

Dec 31

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“During the holiday season, it’s easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can’t think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.” — Kate Klise

Thank you, each human reading this, for the gift of your time. May we each use the license in 2025, to work at our unique occupations, in accordance with our natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else; so that…

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each human* works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. —Plato

*On the eve of its expiration, we used 2024’s poetic license to substitute “human” for “man” in the Brainyquote. com version of the Plato quote. All genders of Platonic lovers studied at Plato’s Academy. Only the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, nymphs and satyrs, et al., and animals were excluded by the masculine noun for human. We did it, so that, some 2300 New Years hence, Plato’s tongue gets no human’s tunic in a twist.

Bonne anee!

Dec 2

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“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.” — Hans Hofmann

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

— Shakira

Oct 15

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Posts tagged ‘The art of poetry’

Will it be wine and roses, or milk and honey?

Back when TVs and phones sprouted rotary dials and hearses grew tail fins, Marshall McLuhan observed: We look at the present through a rear-view mirror, march backwards into the future.What kind of future are we backing into at present? For answers, a great jovialist consults a prophet of doom.

“For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.”

— Nostradamus

Following our previous post, “True Tile Tales,” we picked these tales up off the cutting-room floor, and the tiles came with them. A little bird told us they wouldn’t lie. So, truth be told…

Some stories are true that never happened.

— Elie Wiesel

Our myths glow, as tiles made of clay and compassion, with the fire of gods.

“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.” —Auguste Rodin

“Waiting for a gift from the sea” is a metaphor of practicing patience as its own reward, as virtue must be, for goodness’ sake. If inner strength and endurance are among all good things that come to those who wait, well, a gift from the sea is worth waiting for.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

— Saint Francis de Sales

When there’s nothing else he’d rather do, a writer on a raft, idles on the tide. This series of picture poetry is an artist’s impressions of words which emerge from idling well.

It is better to idle well than to work poorly.

— Anon

To welcome this spring’s new beginning of time for every purpose under the sun, the task of the arts, like that of the sciences, is to say something about Nature.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

— Niels Bohr

Creative vacuumCacophony of silenceAll the rest is noise

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

— Niels Bohr

Thank you, each human reading this, for the gift of your time. May we each use the license in 2025, to work at our unique occupations, in accordance with our natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else; so that…

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each human* works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. —Plato

Bonne anee!

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

— Shakira

Acquired tasteBison on the rangeSavage fare

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture

— Michael Leunig

Back when TVs and phones sprouted rotary dials and hearses grew tail fins, Marshall McLuhan observed: We look at the present through a rear-view mirror, march backwards into the future.
What kind of future are we backing into at present? For answers, a great jovialist consults a prophet of doom.

Creative vacuum
Cacophony of silence
All the rest is noise

Acquired taste
Bison on the range
Savage fare