#roycroft

[julesofnature]

I love you, 
not only for what you are, 
but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, 
not only for what you have made of yourself, 
but for what you are making of me.  I love you, 
for the part of me that you bring out. 
I love you, 
for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart, 
and passing over all the foolish, weak things that you can’t help dimly seeing there, 
and for drawing out, into the light, 
all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.  I love you, 
because you are helping me to make of the lumber of my life not a tavern, but a temple. 
Out of the works of my every day, not a reproach, but a song.  I love you, 
because you have done more than any creed could have done to make me good, 
and more than any fate could have done to make me happy.  You have done it without a touch, 
without a word, 
without a sign. 
You have done it by being yourself. 
Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.

This poem is usually credited to the poet Roy Croft. Not much is known about the writer, however the poem was included in the 1936 anthology “Best Loved Poems of American People” and also appears in “The Family Book of Best Loved Poems” (1952). German translations of the same piece of writing are attributed to Austrian poet Erich Fried, which lead to speculation that the poem is a translation of Fried’s work and Roy Croft is a pseudonym, however taking into account that the poem was already published in 1936 this is unlikely. https://www.marriedbykate.com/client-portal-readings-1/2018/9/9/i-love-you-by-roy-croft

Or, the translator posing as Roy Croft may have wanted to keep the royalties for himself or just not be bothered with obtaining permission from a foreign writer or agency.  https://allpoetry.com/Roy-Croft

[smallcurio]

[porterdavis]

Roycroft Dictionary - Elbert Hubbard

FAILURE : I . The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it , but never does it himself. 1 . A man who has blundered , but is not able to cash in on the experience .

[mapas-fantasticos]

Map of Pontea from The Severing Son novel by Vaughn Roycroft (Map by Tall Shepherd).

[guentzel]

[baseballjerseynumbers]

Chris Roycroft takes 58. Last worn by Preston Guilmet in 2018.

[multcolib]

The Swan and the Stork, from our copy of Aesopic's: or a Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd With Sculpture, and Illustrated With Annotations. Published in 1668 by Thomas Roycroft.

[wisdomfish]

"Things are worse than we imagine, but Christ has come to effect a redemption of which we could never have dreamed."

Andrew Roycroft

[vintage-tech]

The speedometer/odometer of some old car, with the numbers in a pretty excellent Roycroft font.

[psalm22-6]

Source: So This Then is The Battle of Waterloo, published by Roycrofters in 1907, an excerpt of Les Misérables, translated by Lascelles Wraxall I just think it’s funny that a part of the book that so many people dislike today was so widely liked in the past. In American newspapers, excerpts of the Waterloo digression were printed in newspapers for decades after the book was published and this is not even the only example I’ve found of a book that includes only the Waterloo chapters. 

[a-life-lived-outdoors]

The Roycroft Pack Frame.

[thebeautifulbook]

THE ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP by Henry David Thoreau. (East Aurora, Roycroft Press, 1903). Design by Louis Herman Kinder. 50 copies on Japan vellum.

[porterdavis]

Roycroft Dictionary - Elbert Hubbard

CONSERVATIVE : One who is opposed to the things he is in favor of.

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Antique BEEFY Mission Arts & Crafts Oak Library Table Desk Stickley Roycroft Era ebay jeannesantiques

[nando161mando]

"All good men are Anarchists.

All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are Anarchists.

Jesus was an Anarchist.

A monarchist is one who believes a monarch should govern. A Plutocrat believes in the rule of the rich. A Democrat holds that the majority should dictate. An Aristocrat thinks only the wise should decide; while an Anarchist does not believe in government at all."

— Elbert Hubbard, Jesus Was An Anarchist

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

by Andrew Roycroft | Spending an hour with Sam and Sadie was a privilege that few people get to enjoy. To be in the presence of a relative stranger who stepped up and spoke up for Jesus to a late loved one is most likely not a common experience. At the end of my visit I got a photograph…