Announcing the PDR colouring book! Free to download and print off at home: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/03/f
20 images including works by Hokusai, Dürer, Harry Clarke, Jessie M. King, and Aubrey Beardsley. Please share with all you think would enjoy! #isolationcoloration #pdrcoloringbook
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air
Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, and in a perilous path, The just man kept his course along The vale of death. Roses are planted where thorns grow. And on the barren heath Sing the honey bees. Then the perilous path was planted: And a river, and a spring On every cliff and tomb; And on the bleached bones Red clay brought forth. Till the villain left the paths of ease, To walk in perilous paths, and drive The just man into barren climes. Now the sneaking serpent walks In mild humility. And the just man rages in the wilds Where lions roam. Rintrah roars + shakes his fires in the burden'd air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
Authorship
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), "The argument", appears in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
The Second Coming - W. B. Yeats - 1865-1939
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Success is a science
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Stephen Hawking
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. Confucius
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Miguel de Cervantes
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. Mark Twain
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. Oscar Wilde
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Bruce Lee
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