The more ethereal, evanescent, more refined and sublime part of art is the seeing nature through the medium of sentiment and passion, as each object is a symbol of the affections and a link in the chain of our endless being.
– Hazlitt, essay on The Indian Jugglers
This website contains essays and other material on the arts as bearers of spiritual values. It is the online essays site for Urthona Buddhist arts journal.
Our guardian spirits are the romantic and revolutionary writers of early 19th century London – Blake, Hazlitt and Coleridge – and the Zen poets of Japan who were similarly drawn to the open, outer reaches of mind and culture.
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