Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Great Regulars: Their enduring images of beauty

are staging posts in the continuing human search for a "paradise lost"--for the moments in which Piper said we "can see in things something significant beyond ordinary significance: something that for a moment seems to contain the whole world; and when that moment is passed, carries over some comment on life or experience besides the comment on appearances".

from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: Songs of experience

~~~~~~~~~~~

No comments :