Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Her Great Passion
How to respond to someone who e mails me that her great passion is painting - house painting - & writes this just before she goes to work - on a sunny Memorial Day? I could only quote the wonderful composer Olivier Messiaen, who once wrote that his only ambition in life was "to love & be loved."
Or to mangle William Carlos Williams on poetry: You can't get the news from spackling a wall, but you also won't die for lack of what is found there.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Or to mangle William Carlos Williams on poetry: You can't get the news from spackling a wall, but you also won't die for lack of what is found there.
