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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 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 12 The Fading Coal Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A ma...
• Jan 28 The Irreducible Ingredient Emily Dickinson, Poems To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
• Jan 27 The Blank Canvas's Idiotic Stare Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Theo van Gogh Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring at you like some imbecile. You don't know ...
• Jan 26 Crooked Roads William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.