Tag Archives: Drivers

BBC – R4 – TODAY PROGRAMME – POETIC INSPIRATION – 30/1/2013

There are moments in life when a poet knows he has become a poet: leading to a period of discovery of what source they have tapped in to and how they must go on an live their passion.  My own … Continue reading

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BBC – R4 – Great Lives – John Stuart Mill – Series 29 – Episode 6 of 9 – 8/1/2013

An interesting Radio programme examination of the life of the precociously talented J.S. Mills, who realised in his mid-life crisis at the age of 20, that emotional relations are what makes people happy. Coming from the school of Bentham this was a crisis of confidence in Utilitarian Philosophy which led J.S. Mills to the discovery of Poetry. Continue reading

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A JOURNEYMAN WHO WANTS A HOME

I walked in one day to a new world: A place of friendly familiarity clothed With a texture of uncertain difference. Within my new space I found a role To ply a craftsman’s finely honed gifts.

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AN ARTIST’S EVENING SONG

To have creation’s inmost power Resounding through my mind! A shape of things, in vivid flower, Issue from my hand!

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Protected: XXVI – The DOMINANT THOUGHT

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