craft

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• Apr 1 A Mind Calm and Full William Hazlitt, Table Talk; or, Original Essays ('On the Pleasure of Painting') There is a pleasure in painting which none but painters know. In writing, you have to contend with t...
• Mar 16 Raiding the Inarticulate Seamus Heaney, Feeling into Words (Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978) I think technique is different from craft. Craft is what you can learn from other verse. Craft is th...
• Feb 28 Riding on Its Own Melting Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. No one can really hold ...
• Feb 13 The Free Channel Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without inc...
• Feb 4 A Single Taste Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science One thing is needful.— To 'give style' to one's character—a great and rare art! It is practiced by t...
• Jan 31 Signs of Life John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mort...
• Jan 16 The Liberty of the Workman John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, where you have smiled so often at the fantastic...