24 July
Born in 1931 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian filmmaker.
Above: Stills from Olmi’s 1977 film, The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Also, born in 1895, English poet and novelist Robert Graves.
From Graves’ poem “Warning to Children”
Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness
Fewness of this precious only
Endless world in which you say
You live, you think of things like this:
Blocks of slate enclosing dappled
Red and green, enclosing tawny
Yellow nets, enclosing white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where a neat brown paper parcel
Tempts you to untie the string…
Read the whole poem here.