Paul

Learnt glassblowing at university, work in a supermarket. However I spend as much spare time as I can doing what I love which is drawing and painting.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

Oliver Sacks:

“…perhaps I was demanding that the music work, where experience had shown me that demanding never succeeds.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic, must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace.”

He then quotes E. M. Forster:

[Stephanie K. Merrill @skmerrill3]

A poem for #WorldPoetryDay.

[DonPJenn @DonPJenn]

"All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability."

W. B. Yeats

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”

Philip Larkin

Happy #WorldPoetryDay

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.'

Franz Schubert

With each passing year, I find Schubert's observation increasingly accurate.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

William York Macgregor is remembered as one of the leading figures of the Glasgow Boys and co-founder of 'The Glasgow School' with his schoolfriend, the artist James Paterson. 'The Vegetable Stall,' (1884) is considered to be Macgregor's masterpiece.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“Greatness is the eternal silence after conversation. It is to take the rhythm of one’s own words in the empty space.”

— Walter Benjamin

(“The Metaphysics of Youth,” tr. Rodney Livingstone)

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

and another voice came to mind:

“…all that is good and sacred must be celebrated, and for that reason our correspondence should never remain interrupted for too long.”

— Hölderlin (letter to his sister, 1801)

[Ina de Bree @InadeBree]

‘If everyone were clothed with integrity,
if every heart were just, frankly and kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.’

Molière - Le Misanthrope, 1666

René Burri - Le pelican de Mykonos, Greece 1957

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

“Poetry necessitates that we slow down, deepen our attention, practice care with language and with each other; poetry is an essential language…and it affirms our shared humanity.”
- Arthur Sze

[buy Fenestration @Othuke__Umukoro]

—Derek Walcott

[Isidro Li @isidro_li]

Language thou art too narrow, and too weak
To ease us now

— John Donne

[Ina de Bree @InadeBree]

‘Only in dreams, in poetry, in play (…) do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.’

Julio Cortázar, Rayuela (Hopscotch), 1963

Lee Miller by Man Ray, Juan les Pins, France c. 1930

[Ina de Bree @InadeBree]

‘Art is a bridge between the soul and the world.’

Gustav Klimt

Dame mit Hut und Federboa, 1910

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

I keep coming back to Simone Weil's words again & again, “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
Weil, a philosopher & mystic, was born #OTD in 1909

[Ronald Christ @RonaldCHRIST12]

“The beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible that we still barely endure, and we admire it so because it serenely disdains to destroy us.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

“I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.”

- ozamu dazai

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

“Openings & closings, beginnings & endings. Everything in between passes as quickly as the blink of an eye. An eternity precedes the opening & another, if not the same, follows the closing. Somehow everything that lies in between seems for a moment more vivid."
- Philip Glass

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

I love this little message to all writers 🕯️

[John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 @JohnMcCullough_]

‘Soulcraft’, chosen by The Guardian as one of its poems to boost your mood. From my collection, Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins, 2019).