Brush with Reality: Poems and Drawings

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The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. It releases tension needed for his work.

It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw.

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She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget? The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Chesterton What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

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It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. Flowers and fields and wondrous woodlands, skies at sunrise and sunset— And, as true as fairy stories, he is painting somewhere yet! Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent , There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. It is mad with its own loveliness. Little secrets, regrets, joys The rest merely mark time until they die.

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Fischer — Art is an adventure that never seems to end. Life stamps these out It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity.

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The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Classics Words Blog F. Hello Poetry is a poetry community that raises money by advertising to passing readers like yourself. If you're into poetry and meeting other poets, join us to remove ads and share your poetry.

Cress Rosario May Brushes and paints can do a lot of pictures Images inside his head that was once captured It can speak for a million of smiles It can reveal us thousands of lies Even paintings has its own secrets Hid by the one who passionately paints it If we could dive through that canvas We would know the story he wants to tell us. As an artist and a painter, I want to know unseen stories inside every painters hid in their works.

We paint for a reason. It's either we are inspired, hurt, thinking too much, fantasize of something, delighted, or we want to wake up the world. Ashley Chapman Jul Eventually his love of good literature beat out his concerns of propriety. The hitch, of course, was that Merton was unable to leave the monastery. In his place the British actor Robert Spaeight read three of his poems, to very modest success. Although Merton had once been concerned about the propriety of publishing at New Directions, in part due to what Church censors might think of its other writers, when the Cold War and its tactics coalesced he found his beliefs in deep conflict with censors on subjects he considered to be of extraordinary moral importance.

By the early s Merton had become an outspoken critic of nuclear proliferation and the budding conflict in Vietnam. Laughlin sent a copy of the poem to a number of politicians, including both John and Robert Kennedy. Their stock responses thanking him for its receipt would seem to indicate neither actually read the scathing indictment.

The thank you note from Harry S. Truman is so unaware it borders on dark humor. Merton was told not to publish anything more on political or secular matters. In response, he decided to distribute such pieces to a few hundred readers through private channels, ostensibly sending a letter to one recipient, which could then be mimeographed and sent to other interested parties. While the censors would eventually lift their restrictions, he continued to find the circulars a useful way to correspond with a large number of people at one time.

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Circulars can be found in a number of collections at Houghton, both in correspondence with figures whose papers are now housed here, and in a acquisition of ca. This latter acquisition also includes fine early editions of his published works and numerous periodicals containing his articles.

In addition to published and privately distributed pieces on social concerns, Merton would occasionally engage in overt political action. He donated two manuscripts and one drawing to a fundraiser for the campaign of H.

Stuart Hughes, a peace candidate running for the U. Although constantly engaged with the world, there were times when a weariness and wariness crept into his writing. Merton felt his writing needed to be efficacious to that end. In a circular, a copy of which can be found in the papers of the Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo , Merton explains why he had not written about the death of Robert Kennedy.

The sickness seems to be so deep that ritual expressions of sorrow, horror, astonishment, etc. At such a time perhaps silence is more decent.

Silence was, after all, the cornerstone of his spiritual writings. His thoughts on contemplation, a category of Christian prayer similar to Eastern meditation, naturally found expression in not just literary but pastoral activity. He had written to Merton for advice related to his interior life. Letter from Merton to Samuel Dismas Reese with prison inspection stamp.

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