Momentarily healed of dispersion
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007“The universe is form, wholeness, one, and a poem is beautiful and truthful and satisfying insofar as it inhabits its form, and is whole, a universe. Instinctively, the reader of such a poem is momentarily healed of dispersion, momentarily restored to godliness, and momentarily made whole because the poem is the thing. The reader can feel himself being returned to the beginning, to timelessness and innocence and perfection, and with the last word of the poem, he is there again, though only momentarily.”
“…. I think this is pretty much the function of the writer: to gather together again the fragments of man.”
William Saroyan
Excerpt from “The Word”, 1933
The same goes for the musician, the artist, the dancer, the actor, the sculptor…