Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.
Imagination might not be limitless. It’s still tethered to the universe of what we know.
For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.
He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing
Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
It’s perhaps more laudable to simply keep heading out into the world, than always tilting to leave one’s mark on it.