Poetic Beauty
Monday, January 5, 2009
For poetic beauty is a composite of ruthlessness, arrogance, irony, carnal love, imagination and memory, of light and dark, and if we cannot achieve all of these together, our result will be impoverished, precarious, and scarcely alive.
Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
"My Craft," in A Place to Live
