patience

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• Apr 5 Perfection in the Mind Agnes Martin, Beauty Is the Mystery of Life (lecture, collected in Agnes Martin: Writings) When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is i...
• Mar 21 Partly Suggested Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (trans. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker) Lacquerware decorated in gold is not something to be seen in a brilliant light, to be taken in at a ...
• Mar 3 Another More Mysterious Dimension Simone Weil, Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God (Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd) If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an ho...
• 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...