"Even as a ghost my spirit will want to roam the fields of summer." — The Old Man Mad about Art Hokusai Manga Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro,1814-1878 NE1325 K3 H64 vol.14 To the modern Western world there is, perhaps, one image that stands out above the rest as being emblematic of...
“The art of printing, with its necessary tools — paper, ink, and type — has been of supreme importance in the advance of civilization. It has preserved for future generations the culture, literature, and history of former times; it has given opportunities in education for the common...
“If a scholar only stays in one place, he will be blocked by one small river and become narrow-minded and ignorant. He must travel everywhere to see human affairs, the social customs of the north and the south, mountains and rivers, and to broaden his...
My wide hips raised two warriors from sweat & clay, blood sonata & birth cry. I said anger & avarice, & they called themselves Cain & Abel. I said gold, & they opened up the earth. I said love, & they ventured east & west, south & north. I said evil, &...
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At last the Father of the Gods sent Hermes to fetch Persephone back to earth, on condition that she had eaten nothing while in the kingdom of Pluto. Alas that very day she had tasted six seeds of a pomegranate...
“But I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay; For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The May Queen”...
"These questions are not technical questions; they are political and social questions, and the answers given to them may affect all mankind for generations. In thinking about them the men on the project have been thinking as citizens of the United States vitally interested in the welfare...
“Mrs. Delany’s was an age when genteel women, whether amateur or professional, were occupied with crafts, decorative works, design and fine arts. Embroidery, quilling, shellwork, japanning, silhouette making, drawing, painting in oils and watercolours, knitting, sewing, flower making, modelling in wax and clay, miniature painting,...
“Who are we that fled the thousand lives we did not lead in order to escape the very one life that we were destined for?” The Architextures 1-7: The Man of Music Nathaniel Tarn (b. 1928) Sherman Oaks, CA: Ninja Press, 1999 PS3570 A635 A7 1999 Nathaniel Tarn was born...