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Imaginarium
"...however immersed we may become in practical or scientific enterprise, anybody who recollects the confusion it was to be young will have a ready ear for the voice of poetry....to listen to the voice of poetry is to enjoy, not a victory, but a momentary release, a brief enchantment. And perhaps, obliquely, it is to enjoy something more. Having an ear ready for the voice of poetry is to be disposed to choose delight rather than pleasure or virtue or knowledge, a disposition which will reflect itself in practical life in an affection for its intimations of poetry."
-Michael Oakeshott, The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind.
Minerva
Frescos by Taddeo Zuccari, 1563-1565
*Picture taken at Villa Farnese in Caprarola, Italy.
Frescos by Taddeo Zuccari, 1563-1565
*Picture taken at Villa Farnese in Caprarola, Italy.
The Imaginarium is the homestead of art, where we may listen to and delight in the voice of poetry. By "Art" I hereby mean generally, the "manner" or "mode" of our "doings", the way in which we engage ourselves and the subsequent creations of those engagements.