The morns are meeker than they were The morns are meeker than they were –The nuts are getting brown –The berry’s cheek is plumper –The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf –The field a scarlet gown –Lest I sh’d be old-fashionedI’ll put a trinket on. ( Emily Dickinson.) Le… Read More Autumn Palette 🍂
Cap. 3 – Alessandra (6) Come dicevo, durante il periodo in ospedale Nike aveva dovuto fare uso costante di morfina per alleviare il dolore, e a poco a poco ne era diventata dipendente.Fu durante la convalescenza alla Versiliana che Gabriele capì che Alessandra non era uscita indenne dalla malattia.In seguito ebbe a scrivere: “E in… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾XIV☽🖋️
Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 –1840) was a 19th century Romantic painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. “I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my… Read More Friedrich & Painting
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –1882) was an American philosopher and poet, and the leading exponent of New England TranscendentalismThis was an idealistic system of thought based on faith in the innate goodness of man and nature, whose purity has been corrupted by society and its institutions.Transcendentalists believed that divinity is present and pervades the whole… Read More Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Rhodora
“The Trees”, written in 1967, is one of Philip Larkin‘s most famous and loved poems.He was an English poet, novelist and librarian, who was the first in The Times’ list of “ The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945” first published in 2008, beating the likes of George Orwell, William Golding, Ted Hughes Doris Lessing.… Read More “The Trees” 🌳🌳🌳
Three quotes by James Cabell: “A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book “means” thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets… Read More Cabell on Literature
Susanne Langer (20 December 1895-1985) was an American philosopher of art, one of the first female academic philosophers in the USA, popular in the past but now often forgotten She is best known for her 1942 book “Philosophy in a New Key”, where she put forth an idea that she developed in her following studies… Read More Symbols
Joseph McCabe was a prolific English writer and orator born on November 12, 1867. He entered the Franciscan order at fifteen and was ordained a priest, but then he quit priesthood becoming a supporter of free thought. He said: “I am what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began… Read More Joseph McCabe
But now in September,the garden has cooled,and with it my possessiveness.The sun warms my backinstead of beating on my head…The harvest has dwindled,and I have grown apart fromthe intense midsummer relationshipthat brought it on. This poem was written by Robert Finch (born 1943). regarded as one of America’s leading nature essayists. (Additional note: While doing… Read More But Now in September
Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th century German painter, considered one of the finest representatives in Europe of the art-movement Romanticism. “You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.” In… Read More Wanderer
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