Many other activities are open to the Guild, such as the formation of a
library, collections of films and slides, sponsoring scholarships and
all should be undertaken with a view to promoting the improvement of
standards. We are proud to be associated with one of the oldest crafts
known to mankind, but we must push on to new horizons, and better and
more imaginative work.

Eric Marsden

notes for potters
by Gerry Gilbert
28/2/66 A TRADITION FOR YOU

Going off in all directions just looking

for a place to begin: to make myself clear:

or freely alive in time (the bright confusion

of that) I keep trying to end this sentence

(sentience) and it wont ! 'TAKE CARE OF THE ENDS/
THE MIDDLE TAKES CARE OF ITSELF" but in this
world (CRASH !): the ends of my life are well

taken care of: as they have always been, for

peasants, whose work is to tend gardens: face

life: as the samurai get to face death. It was

hard to learn that as artists, we are not revilutpnaries:
no matter how radical it may sound, just to be

here, in these present gardens, What size is

the present? 'THE POET IS THE MOST CONSERVATIVE
MEMBER OF SOCIETY' he saves the present, the
moment of man. (the best books about poetry that

Ive read, I found in Bernard Leach's library)

It's hard to remember now, when these notes began.
& I see: your pots: you have begun. The

question is how to continue: survive (live on)

... tradition (hand down) : as you hand down

a body to your children... something lives on.