I don't know much about Edwin Morgan's poetry (perhaps I'll learn more when this site is not so "under construction", and if it loses the odd "go look at his books" attitude), but what prompts this entry is his art collection. At 84, he has donated it to the University of Glasgow -- 70 works in all, worth "a fortune" according to the reporter and a "very good and valuable" collection according to a curator quoted. Morgan, who collected the works according to taste rather than fashion, says of his gift:

[The paintings will] be in good hands and lots of people will see them: that is the idea I like the best. You can clutter your life and your home up with many things, with lots of objects that have no use, and the paintings are in my mind: I have been looking at them for so many years. I have got my enjoyment out of them and now other people can too.

That is just so very right. I would very much like to be able to do something similar, eventually, with my own modest collections of books and art. I do not have much, but I like the idea that perhaps I could plug some gaps in a useful academic or museum collection somewhere. (via eeksypeeksy, Ivy and Anne; photo by Jean Maclachlan)