Showing posts with label John Keats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Keats. Show all posts

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Learning to play "Black Waters"


Negative Capability, that is, when [Amanda] is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
(John Keats)

That's a song written by Jean Ritchie for the Appalachian dulcimer.  I like the way it sounds on my recently purchased 1976 Oscar Schmidt 15-chord autoharp.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Certain























"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not."

-- John Keats, English lyric poet (1795 - 1821)

("Reconciliation Dream," gouache and watercolor, painted by am in 1999)