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A pottery challenge! - 2006/04/17 18:58
There is nothing better than the feel of your hands in clay!  I couldn't be happier than when I am working. I challenge others in this forum to find unique quotes about pottery.
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown,
A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found;
'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound,
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command,
Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand:
Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel
The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
- John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius (l. 35)
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Re:A pottery challenge! - 2006/04/18 16:01
 I have one:
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown,
A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found;
'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound,
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command,
Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand:
Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel
The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
- John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius (l. 35)
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Re:A pottery challenge! - 2006/04/18 16:09
Some quotes by Beatrice Wood (one of my favorite potters!):
"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."
"I never meant to become a potter."
"But I do what is the forbidden thing for a real good ceramist. I cook."
Lynne Shope
Owner of Mar-Lyn Ceramics
West Point, MS 39773
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Re:A pottery challenge! - 2006/04/21 16:15
Here's one:
All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
- Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker"), The Rubaiyat
(st. 87), (FitzGerald's translation)
So what do I win? 
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