by phillipw | Jul 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.” ~ Oscar Wilde Philosophers, if they obey the creed Of Socrates, may concentrate upon The archaeology of primal need Where it is buried, waiting to be drawn Out from the depths below the conscious mind. They should not...
by phillipw | Jul 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Pike Essence is beauty. Motion says essence Is beauty, but it lives in stasis too In Keats’ ode. In static incandescense, As in painfully imagined blue Sky higher than lowing sacrifice, The heifer in her fatal garlands lives Eternally. Yet beauty...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Full of Elegance and Truth: Fra Angelico’s Annunciation in the Prado An Annunciation poem [Look at the painting first? In case you don’t already know, Mary is always dressed in red (because of Christ’s Passion) and blue (to represent...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Thomas Wentworth Higginson reported Dickinson’s comments about sweets in a letter to his wife: “‘People must have puddings’ this [was said] very dreamily, as if they were comets—so she makes them” (L342a) http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/book/export/html/44 Once...
