"A writer lives. The task of being a poet is not completed at a fixed schedule. No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry. I suppose a painter feels that colors and shapes are besieging hi. Or a musician feels that the strange world of sounds--the strangest world of art--is always seeking him out, that there are melodies and dissonances looking for him. For the task of an artist, blindness is not a total misfortune. It may be an instrument. Fray Luis de Leon dedicated one of his most beautiful odes to Francisco Salinas, a blind musician."
From "Blindess"
1 comment:
oh, what a beautiful motto, for today and for always....
"a writer lives."
profound, truly.
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