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"Any healthy man can go without food for two days- but not without poetry."
  -Baudelaire

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"-Not knowing how to live, he kept on living- 
and not knowing how to die, he went on writing"      
-Corbiere        

Dali

Mannequin, 1927

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"If you can't find a way to be free under the dictator you won't be free when (the dictator) is gone."
-Hala Mohammad

Your Household Bookcase

 Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

James Hall

Harper & Row

New York, 1979

Andy Warhol

Two hands playing piano, circa 1954

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/20/andy-warhol-unseen-drawings

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"Modern historical scepticism must not bridle us or we will have no Orpheus to converse with and no stories to tell."
-Michael Schmidt, The First Poets

Popular Photography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA

Inferno

Olexandr Archipenko

Danse Macabre (Group Terror #41), 1952

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“To create one’s own world takes courage.”
-Georgia O’Keeffe

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 "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
-Plato
 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_poetry.html#oPHiIzKPHXswQeyd.99

The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses

Max Ernst 1920
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/max-ernst

Picasso's Mother

by Picasso, age 16

Your Household Bookcase

 The Family of Man

Photographic exhibition created by Edward Steichen

for The Museum of Modern Art

New York, 1955

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"The style of a man is the direct result of his passion for life. Learning and scholarship are of little value here."
-Llewelyn Powys

Handbook of Poetic Forms

Rod Padgett, Ed.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative

New York

1987

 

"Writers learn how to remember, and how to turn these memory-pictures (and sounds and smells) into words.

p.119



Kugelhaus, Dresden

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                             "...I know myself a Man-                 

Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing."

-John Davies

Student Work                                 M. Hill 1995

Foundry



Found Art



Old Tennessee Church                                                      M.Hill 2007

Legs

M. Hill 2001

Dali

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"The poet is at the disposal of his night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation."
-Jean Cocteau

Ecce Homo

George Grosz, 1923

Dover Publications, 1976

New York 

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"All writing is to some degree automatic."
-Brewster Ghiselen