Beschrijving
A collection of classic rhyming verse built around the concept of Personification — giving life & form & voice & breath to philosophical concepts & virtues.
Individual pieces include: Outlaw Time & his love of beautiful Nature … flourishing, lavish Superstition, Idolatry & Hypocrisy … the fierce collision of Time & Truth … Justice’s blind eyes, eager ears & tepid aid … tobogganing down treacherous Ignorance … collecting & gathering Strength in odd places … lifting & carrying backbreaking Dreams … How Alcohol is no lady — & certainly not your friend … the discourse between Knowledge & Wisdom … the timeless relationship between Death & Beauty (& more).
Includes 22 pieces, accompanied by allegorical art work from Arnold Böcklin, Titian, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Frederick Stuart Church, Maritius Lowe, Theodoor van Thulden, Balthasar Permoser, Eglon van Der Neer, Jacob & Joris Hoefnagel, Jules de Bruycker, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Venanci Vallmitjana & the Supreme Court of Canada.
Also includes wisdom & insight from:
Martin Luther
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Updike
Mos Def
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
D.H. Lawrence
Lee Xiaolong
the Book of Isaiah
Jim Stands
the Book of Isaiah
Eleanor Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Alexander Pope
Mother Teresa
the Dalai Lama
Meryl Streep
J.R.R. Tolkien
Maya Angelou
e.e. cummings
Mark Twain
Michel de Montaigne
Jimi Hendricks
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Thucydides
Henry Ford
Kurt Vonnegut
Louis Pasteur
DeWitt Clinton
Calvin Coolidge
Augustus Hare
Derek Bok
Margaret Fuller
Jay-Z
Friedrich Nietzsche
Leonardo da Vinci
Marcus Garvey
Plato
Ralph W. Sockman
Stephen Hawking
Kofi Annan
Avery Brooks
James Madison
John Milton
Jim Morrison
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Horace
Homer
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Virginia Woolf