13 Sunday Dec 2015
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“There is no culture unless an intimate relationship, on the level of instinct, exists between a people and its poets”.
Herbert Read, The Forms of Things Unknown
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08 Sunday Nov 2015
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“The determination of scientists not to ask questions that cannot be answered empirically, and proved logically, has led to a drastic shrinkage of philosophical territory: philosophy is now identified with logic, deductive and inductive, and it is the claim of the scientific philosophers that no other mental activity deserves the name of philosophy. Logical formulas have taken the place of what the scientist calls ‘the picture language of speculative systems’, and on a diet of such dry dog biscuits modern man is asked to undertake his spiritual Odyssey”.
Herbert Read, The Forms of Things Unknown
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22 Thursday Oct 2015
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“Deep down in my consciousness is the consciousness of a collective life, a life of which I am part and to which I contribute a minute but unique extension. When I die and fall, the tree remains, nourished to some small degree by my brief manifestations of life. Millions of leaves have preceded me and millions will follow me; the tree itself grows and endures”.
Herbert Read, The Contrary Experience
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17 Saturday Oct 2015
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“Deep down my attitude is a protest against the fate that has made me a poet in an industrial age”.
Herbert Read
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19 Wednesday Aug 2015
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“We are to be kept alive in more than one sense: first as individuals, then as communities, and finally as a species. To keep ourselves alive as individuals we must practise mutual aid – that is to say, we must form communities. It now begins to look as though, in order to keep alive as communities, we must practise mutual aid at the community level, and eventually as a species. In order to practise mutual aid, we must communicate with one another… the idea that words and symbols could be used positively, as synthetic structures that constitute effective modes of communication, does not seem to have occurred to our leading psychologists. Myth and ritual, poetry and drama, painting and sculpture – they have treated these creative achievements of mankind as so much grist for the analytical mill, but never as conceivably the disciplines by means of which mankind has kept itself mentally alert and therefore biologically vital”.
Herbert Read, The Forms of Things Unknown
29 Monday Jun 2015
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“I despise this foul industrial epoch”.
Herbert Read, Poetry and Anarchism
21 Thursday May 2015
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“It is perfectly possible, even normal, to live a life of contradictions”.
Herbert Read
10 Sunday May 2015
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“To be part of civilization is to be part of its ugliness and haste and economic barbarism. It is to be a butterfly on the wheel. But a poet is born. He is born in spite of the civilization. When, therefore, he is born into this apathetic and hostile civilization, he will react in the only possible way, he will become the poet of his own spleen, the victim of his own frustrated sense of beauty, the prophet of despair”.
Herbert Read, Phases of English Poetry
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05 Sunday Apr 2015
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“It is as simple as that: we have lost touch with things, lost the physical experience that comes from a direct contact with the organic processes of nature… We know it – instinctively we know it and walk like blind animals into a darker age than history has ever known”.
Herbert Read, The Contrary Experience
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27 Friday Feb 2015
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“Faith in the fundamental goodness of man; humility in the presence of natural laws; reason and mutual aid – these are the qualities that can save us. But they must be unified and vitalized by an insurrectionary passion, a flame in which all virtues are tempered and clarified, and brought to their most effective strength”.
Herbert Read, The Philosophy of Anarchism
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