envy can be tamed only by death.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dche burns by his very splendor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthere is nothing hard in the inside of an olive, nothing hard in the outside of a nut.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwe are arrived at the highest pitch of success in arts; we paint, and sing.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcif length of time makes poems better, as it does winery would fain know how many years will stamp a value upon writings.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsacred is every ancient poem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcawake before the sun is risen, i call for my pen and papers and desk.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmechanics handle tools but we, unlettered and learned, promiscuously write poems\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (everyone writes poems, those both learned and unlearned)<\/p>\n
poets live on husks and brown bread.<\/p>\n
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order our lives correctly; not our verses!<\/p>\n
lets make a great life; not make great photos?<\/p>\n
Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s make connections; not photos.<\/p>\n
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write verses; write blog posts?<\/p>\n
assume the spirit of an honest critic against myself!<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI would rather be known as a foolish and dull writer (while having my faults please myself), than be known as others as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwise\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
– I would rather be seen as a bad photographer and like my own photos, than have people like my photos (which i consider bad)<\/strong><\/p>\n reject trifles.<\/p>\n leave childish lay to boys<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnot to scan words and be set to music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbe perfectly adept in the numbers and proportions of real life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/p>\n commune\/talk with myself\u00e2\u20ac\u201d and ponder ideas in silence.<\/p>\n we thirst only for (some) water; but unlimited fame and money.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dci, whether borne in a large or small vessel, let me be borne uniform and the same.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dci am not wafted with swelling sail.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n is your breast free from vain ambition?<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n poet x painters<\/strong><\/p>\n be a photographer painter ***<\/p>\n \n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poets and painters [you will say] have ever had equal authority for attempting any thing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n simple and uniform subject<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dci labor to be concise\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d work harder to make my photos, art, articles, brief.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u2122singular skill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmake choice of a subject suitable to your abilities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwords perish with old age\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use new words.<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t follow trends, or flashy stuff<\/strong> – stick to classics.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmortal works must perish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n Prefer to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcignorant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 than \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclearned\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfall asleep or laugh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (at bad art)<\/p>\n If you venture to create a new character; preserve the character until the last (same as beginning, consistency)<\/p>\n if i remake myself in life; i need to have a consistent character (until i die)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca public story will become your own property.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n on plays \u00e2\u20ac\u201d no longer than 5 acts?<\/p>\n \n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbe neither shorter nor longer than the fifth act<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcneither let a god interfere; nor let a fourth person be officious to speak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto have good sense, is the first principle and fountain of writing well.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n Find advice in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsocratic papers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (for subject matter)<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe greeks, covetous of nothing but praise, the muse gave genius.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpoets wish either to profit or to delight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/p>\n make my poetry benefit\/profit others \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not to just please.<\/p>\n poets should\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122deliver at once both the pleasures and the ncessaries of life.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhatever precepts you give, be concise\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/p>\n when i give advice- be concise!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcall superfluous instructions flow from the too full memory.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcas is painting, so is poetry: some pieces will strike you more if you stand near, and some, if you are at a greater distance: one loves the dark; another, which is not afraid of the critic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s subtle judgment, chooses to be seen in the light; the one has pleased once, the other will give pleasure if ten times repeated.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Some paintings are more powerful if you stand near. other paintings stronger when you stand far.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpoetry, created and invented for the delight of our souls, if it comes short ever so little of the summit, sinks to the bottom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPhotography, created and invented for the delight of our souls, if it comes ever so little of the summit, sinks to the bottom.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n Understand the game of poetry \/\/ understand the game of photography<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchonor accrued to divine poets, and their songs.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n does good poetry come from nature or from art?<\/p>\n \n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you had recited any thing to Quintilius, he would say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alter, I pray, this and this:\u00e2\u20ac\u009d if you replied, you could do it no better, having made the experiment twice or thrice in vain; he would order you to blot out, and once more apply to the anvil your ill-formed verses: if you choose rather to defend than correct a fault, he spent not a word more nor fruitless labor, but you alone might be fond of yourself and your own works, without a rival.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Delete verses without spirit<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCensure spiritless photos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A good and sensible man will censure spiritless verses, he will condemn the rugged, on the incorrect he will draw across a black stroke with his pen; he will lop off ambitious [and redundant] ornaments; he will make him throw light on the parts that are not perspicuous; he will arraign what is expressed ambiguously; he will mark what should be altered.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" envy can be tamed only by death. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dche burns by his very splendor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthere is nothing hard in the inside of an olive, nothing hard in the outside of a nut.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwe are arrived \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39530","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}art of poetry<\/h2>\n
No longer than 5 acts<\/h2>\n
Avoid deus machina<\/h2>\n
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Painting x poetry<\/h2>\n
disregard people who tell you to alter your poetry or art:<\/h2>\n
censure \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcspiritless verses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/h2>\n