January 2009
11 posts
“The boy who does the small things well is making himself ready to do big things...”
– from a nice letterpress piece up in the Design Center, as I recall
Casper David Friedrich
I recently rediscovered a painter whose work I remember seeing in my art history class as an undergrad. I think for a long time I mixed him up with J. M. W. Turner, so I’m happy to have cleared it up. Needless to say, his work is definitely worth checking out.
“It was a gift from a Higher Power that seeks to remind me that every moment of...”
– from a great article in The Fairview Town Crier by Monte Sorells.
“Grace is favor shown to a totally unworthy person from someone who is totally...”
– John Calvin
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by...
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for...
“To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty; to be a poet at forty is to be a poet.”
– I’ve been working on getting back into poetry lately. It’s been a long time since I’ve written much of anything. Unfortunately it looks like it’s a futile effort from the perspective of Delacroix, who I confess, has a good point.