“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands , so does our power to think….If we limit and distort language, we limit and distort personality.”

Madeleine L’Engle: A Circle Of Quiet, p.149

…”the idiosyncratic has triumphed over the normative..”

Joseph A. Mazzeo:

“An image, and the thing of which it is an image, are not separate; they are not two substances…An image is strictly an emanation….A thing’s image grows out of itself and grows upon itself.”

Meister Eckhart ? Quoted in Eco, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages…p. 113

” …that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life…”

Pasternak, in…Dr. Zhivago, 456

“�when a poem is said to have two meanings, both are�in the poem�the poem is their union.”

Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, 45

“To believe all this, I don’t take any leap into the absurd. I find it reasonable to believe, even though these beliefs are beyond reason.”

Flannery O’Connor

“The ragged figure that moves from tree to tree in the back of his mind…”

Flannery O’Connor