“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It…
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Dame Edith Sitwell in the Fall
“My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.” ~Dame Edith Sitwell “Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.” ~Dame Edith Sitwell “The poet speaks to all men of…
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Gates of the Altar, Hail!
I shall walk in blue all the days of my life even if all desert me. It had not taken long to reach the church; a car ride of several hours along the eastern seaboard of the United States, the shores of the ocean just out of reach. As the car cut through the morning fog, the children texted…
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Notre-Dame de Paris and Professor de Oliveira
“For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Ball and…
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Dame Edith Sitwell: A Walking Fire
“My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.” Dame Edith Sitwell The English poet Dame Edith Sitwell (b. 1887- d. 1964) might be categorized as “eccentric” if the negative connotations associated with the word might be removed, for in our world, where everyone seems determined to follow the crowd (of course, a normal human tendency, as the sheep of…
