making

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• Apr 3 Risking Delight Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
• Mar 19 The Root of Praise W.H. Auden, Making, Knowing and Judging (The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays) Every poem is rooted in imaginative awe. Poetry can do a hundred and one things, delight, sadden, di...
• Mar 4 Merely a Channel Paul Klee, On Modern Art (lecture delivered at Jena, trans. Paul Findlay) The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, quietly found his way in it. H...
• Feb 15 The Highest Justice Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every...
• Feb 14 Only One of You Martha Graham, Conversation with Agnes de Mille There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and beca...
• Jan 30 The By-Product Robert Henri, The Art Spirit The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture—however unreasonable this may sound. The p...
• Jan 29 Thinking in Common Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking ...
• Jan 28 The Irreducible Ingredient Emily Dickinson, Poems To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
• Jan 24 What the Bees Know Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 'Of the Education of Children' (trans. John Florio) Even as bees pillage here and there from flowers, but afterward make honey, which is all theirs; it ...
• Jan 21 The Only Question Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send th...