A Poet Reflects

April 9, 2012 with 77 notes
        tags: infinite delight. mystery. Questions They Never Asked Me. Walker Percy.
“This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer, ‘Scientific humanism.”  That won’t do.  A poor show.  Life is a mystery, love is a delight.  Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e. God.  In fact, I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less.” —Walker Percy, from Questions They Never Asked Me (Lord John Press, 1979)

“This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer, ‘Scientific humanism.”  That won’t do.  A poor show.  Life is a mystery, love is a delight.  Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e. God.  In fact, I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less.”

—Walker Percy, from Questions They Never Asked Me (Lord John Press, 1979)

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