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The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character
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British polymath John Ruskin famously voiced his frustration at this: We want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense. As it is, we mak
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Prophet of the Human-Built World: An Introduction to John Ruskin
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Ruskin connected the wish to travel fast and far to an inability to derive appropriate pleasure from any one place
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T. S. Eliot • Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” ~~William Morris
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John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism. Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them. Always trust yourself and your own feelings as opposed to any such analysis, review or introduction; if you should be wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly
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