12 January 2017
— to the east only the very palest hint of the approaching dawn
Good Morning All,
So far, none of you has voiced a preference for two poems and no quotes from the birthday folk, or one poem and as many quotes as possible from the birthday folk. (I do know that one of you maintains the quotes I choose tend to be on the sententious and instructive side. You may well be correct, but I am working on it!)
I confess I enjoy the quotes and have done so since Buddy Glass informed me that he and his brother Seymour kept a whole wall of quotes in their apartment room growing up in New York on the Upper East Side.
I’ve been kicking some quotes around for decades. Dostoevsky says somewhere in War and Peace, “To understand completely is to forgive all.” I do and do not want to believe that statement to be true. On the one hand, it would seem to rob one of the power to act. On the other hand, it might take one beyond power itself into a world of peace unimaginable.
E.M. Forster says in—I am pretty sure—Howard’s End, “I trust people and am willing to pay the price.” Such a seemingly naive utterance, and yet the alternative—not trusting people—would lead to abject loneliness.
Louisa May Alcott still has my all-time favorite quote, from Little Women: “Love is a great beautifier.” I read that with such a sense of relief and liberation!
Go well and stay well,
Bhekaron
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