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...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too... More than this, they were right in the fact that the plastic culture - modern man, the mechanist...
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Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For ...
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In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would b...
When will the death Of Death ever come? from "The Siege
Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones. (from "Gratitude")
There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Invite Tranquility The sea,-- Something to look at When we are angry.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
