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I can be found on Flickr.
"https://tinyurl.com/y99rm9ed"
Not much going on for photography on the Visual Arts sub forum, unless I'm looking in the wrong place.

Am impressed by your photos Barbarian. The range of emotion and ambience you capture in them is well worth the browsing. Specially liked rocky cleft with the wooden bridge over it (The Hard Way?). Again something (pre-raphaelite?) about the light quality.
Yea CF does what it does and Flickr does what it does :).
Gould's thoughts on modularity, mmm still need to chew that one a bit more.
Hope your weekend goes good,
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I should say that some of them are Mrs. Barbarian's. If it's a great shot of a person, it's probably hers. Like Ansel Adam, I take pictures of rocks as though they are people, and pictures of people as though they are rocks.
 
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Now I must go by some other round, —

Which I shall never find —
Somewhere that does not carry the sound
Of Four-Feet trotting behind.

From Kipling's Four Feet

If you've ever loved and lost an animal friend, this expresses the feeling perfectly.
 
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Hello TheDaniël - welcome to CF. Have you any favorite poems or poets? Is there such a thing as 'perfect poetry'?
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Ah yes, i love Dante's Inferno, Nostradamus and Paradise Lost but you know what i think Irish Music is also great poetry, like Rocky Road to Dublin
 
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Now I must go by some other round, —
Which I shall never find —
Somewhere that does not carry the sound
Of Four-Feet trotting behind.

From Kipling's Four Feet

If you've ever loved and lost an animal friend, this expresses the feeling perfectly.
Hi Barbarian, how you doing? Yea I like Kipling. Don't know Four Feet, will look it up.
Bed time
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Ah yes, i love Dante's Inferno, Nostradamus and Paradise Lost but you know what i think Irish Music is also great poetry, like Rocky Road to Dublin
So do read these in Dutch, Italian, English? Is Nostradamus poetry? I know it is supposed to be prophetic but I'm not familiar with him. I'm off to sleep now.
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For me good poetry touches the heart and speaks to someone regardless of form. It's hard since poetry can be so personal yet also universal.
Hello acf - Welcome to CF. Who are some of your go to poets?
Yes 'touches the heart' but to what effect? 'Speaks' yes but what does it says good or bad, true or false, or just cardboard?
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To answer the original question of "what is good art or poetry" --- to me the answer is simple ---- >>> it is memorable.
Hi Jack - I hear what you're saying but come on, is everything that is memorable also good, true, just, virtuous?
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Emily Dickinson defined poetry this way: “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”
 
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Emily Dickinson defined poetry this way: “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”

Like I said earlier, good poetry is "memorable".
 
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Like I said earlier, good poetry is "memorable".

"good" poetry is memorable, great poetry rips the top of your head off. Two very different things.
 
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Emily Dickinson defined poetry this way: “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”
Hi ewq - Emily D was a great poetess and she's written some very good poetry. Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod :) but no that's not what 'good' poetry does for me. For me there may be a warming, an awakening, maybe a tingle, a touch, a vivifying, maybe a smile, maybe sorrow.
I'm not even sure if, 'having the top of ones head taken off' can be considered to be a 'good' thing?
Form - Content - Intent! In any engagement with art (communication), what exactly are we responding to? Is the cause of our response 'good'? Is our response to it 'good'?
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Hi ewq - Emily D was a great poetess and she's written some very good poetry. Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod :) but no that's not what 'good' poetry does for me. For me there may be a warming, an awakening, maybe a tingle, a touch, a vivifying, maybe a smile, maybe sorrow.
I'm not even sure if, 'having the top of ones head taken off' can be considered to be a 'good' thing?

Never heard the expression, "That blew me away!"? :)
 
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Never heard the expression, "That blew me away!"? :)
Yep :). The point I'm making still stands.
Form - Content - Intent! In any engagement with art (communication), what exactly are we responding to? Is the cause of our response 'good'? Is our response to it 'good'?
What exactly is blowing us away? Is it a 'good' thing to be blown away? Where are we blown to? Where are we blown from?
Go well
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