30 June

Born in 1891 – Stanley Spencer, English painter.

Above: Christ in the Wilderness - The Hen, c.1939

Also, born in 1911, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet Czesław Miłosz.

From the poem “One More Day”:

The voices of birds outside the window when they greet the morning
And iridescent stripes of light blazing on the floor,
Or the horizon with a wavy line where the peach-colored sky and the dark-blue mountains meet.
Or the architecture of a tree, the slimness of a column crowned with green….

And when people cease to believe that there is good and evil,
Only beauty will call to them and save them
So that they still know how to say: this is true and that is false.