The highest possible standard

Running rest-day ...

... more a quote, than a poem, this evening - thought this appropriate given the significance of today's date:


Aesthetics in Scotland
by Hugh MacDiarmid

"The mass of the people will react all right
if they get a chance.
It is the stupid conservatism
of their self-styled 'betters' that is the danger ...
Amateurism has always been the curse
of the arts in modern Scotland ---
amateurism, and, along with it,
the inveterate predilection to 'domesticate the issue' ...
the progress of the Arts in Scotland is dependent upon ...
the wider appreciation and striving after
the highest possible standard."