Sir Herbert E. Read | Illuminating anarchist

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Sir Herbert E. Read | Illuminating anarchist

Poet, critic, philosopher

"Art is distinguished by its sudden glories, its irrational and irregular irruptions of light in the midst of universal darkness." - Herbert E. Read | Novelty of Nous

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“[Read’s] critical scrutiny embraced society, art, and literature from the point of view of a philosophic anarchist.”

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herbert-Read-British-art-critic

“Read combined his sharpness of perception with his commitment to ‘searching life at a very great depth’, to produce writing after writing in a career that spanned six decades.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/herbert-read

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Book cover for To Hell With Culture by Herbert Read
“Art differs from nature not in its organic form, but in its human origins: in the fact that it is not God or a machine that makes a work of art, but an individual with instincts and intuitions, with a sensibility and mind; searching relentlessly for the perfection that is neither in mind nor in nature, but in the unknown. I do not mean this in an other-worldly sense, only that the form of the flower is unknown to the seed.” ~ Sir Herbert E. Read
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