Muse of the Day

11.03.2007

Again?


Will you stop for a while, stop trying to pull yourself
together
for some clear "meaning"--some momentary summary?
no one
can have poetry or dances, prayers or climaxes all day,
the ordinary
blankness of little dramatic consciousness is good for the
health sometimes,
only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long
long tumultuous stretches;

Excerpt from Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony by John Tagliabue

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