Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) English poet
The Dark Angel (1895)
The Golden Violet - title poem - The First Day
The Golden Violet (1827)
Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) English poet
The Dark Angel (1895)
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
“What is liberal education,” p. 7
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
“The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book On Fairy-Stories
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Context: The story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.
Suleiman (1494–1566) Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Mansel, Philip, Constantinople: city of the world's desire 1453-1924 (1995), p. 84
Poetry
“Be sure, from nature never to depart;
To copy nature is the task of art.”
Praeterea haud lateat te nil conarier artem,
Naturam nisi ut assimulet, propiusque sequatur.
Hanc unam vates sibi proposuere magistram:
Quicquid agunt, hujus semper vestigia servant.
Marco Girolamo Vida (1485–1566) Italian bishop
Book II, line 455
De Arte Poetica (1527)
Context: Be sure, from nature never to depart;
To copy nature is the task of art.
The noblest poets own her sovereign sway,
And ever follow where she leads the way.
Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
Source: Collected Poems (1966), p. 20
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter III "The Departments of Architecture" Sec. 1
“If I haven't made my point clear, let me just spell it out: don't.”
TotalBiscuit (1984–2018) British game commentator
This is absolutely awful."
Audio blogs, Worms World Party Remastered b******s
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Existencilism (2002)