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El Amor Duerme en el Pecho del Poeta
In 1984, ABC brought to light the love sonnets of Federico García Lorca, making quite a stir. The sonnet The Beloved Sleeps on the Poet’s Breast, the next to the last in the series Sonnets of Dark Love, is the … Continue reading
De Rerum Natura
In his only surviving work De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the philosopher and poet Lucretius expounds on his theory that all matter is composed of tiny particles, making him the world’s second atomic physicist (Democritus, in fact, … Continue reading
I’m With You
Alan Ginsberg dedicated the third section of Howl to Carl Solomon, whom he met at a psychiatric hospital in 1949. Ginsberg sympathized with Solomon, who, like Ginsberg’s mother, struggled with mental illness and received shock treatment. He describes the events that occurred … Continue reading
We Stand Together
In remembrance of the victims of the bombings at Manchester Arena on May 22nd, 2017, and in support of their families and friends.
O Sleep
I have always sympathized with King Henry IV who desperately laments his inability to go to sleep.
Posted in Blackletter, Calligraphy, Quotes
Tagged Calligraphie, calligraphy, Calligraphy by Raoul, Ink stick, Pergamenata, Shakespeare, Sleep, Sumi ink
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Gabriel
Pour Gabriel, le messager des bonnes nouvelles ! John Milton, le Paradis Perdu, livre 4, 1667 Traduction de l’anglais par François-René de Chateaubriand
Posted in Blackletter, Calligraphy, Fraktur variation, Quotes
Tagged Blackletter, Calligraphie, calligraphy, Calligraphy by Raoul, Fraktur, Gabriel, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Sumi ink
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Calligraphy by Raoul 