Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

A day is a miniature eternity




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I subscribe to a series of podcasts of the essays of Poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson which are very enjoyable ways to pass time.  Emerson died on this day in 1882 and to day I just wanted to share a few more of my favourite lines from Mr Emerson, beginning with the line used to title this post...

"A day is a miniature eternity."
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A few of his words on artists and on creativity follow....
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, 
they must put their lives into the sting they give."
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"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, 
we must carry it with us or we find it not"
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"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn" 
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RIP Ralph Waldo Emerson, an inspirational man whose words still hold meaning in our contemporary society.



Monday, 18 May 2009

songs of love and despair


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Having recently introduced a friend to the joys of Il Postino last month, I have been re-reading Pablo Neruda's 20 LOVE SONGS AND A SONG OF DISPAIR recently, and it was very much on my mind during my recent trip to Spain. I have seen an edition of 20 Love Songs... that is illustrated by Pablo Picasso, I would really like to own one of those copies.... it's on my birthday wish list ;)
Neruda wisely said that "Poetry is like bread. It should be shared by all, by scholars and peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity."
Here is my own personal repsonse to Neruda, visual poetry if you will. Just listed in my Green Island Studios Shop today. Click here to drop by.
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Monday, 4 May 2009

The Evening Beam that Smiles the Clouds Away

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“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

~ Lord Byron ~
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I guess that you may be starting to know me well enough by now, that you will know that I am an incurable romantic and arduous fan of Byrons words.
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