“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has to always be out of step with his time.”
— Orson Welles
(Source: the-dark-city)
Posts tagged belief:
“I believe in a God beyond God.”
—Joseph Campbell
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
—Ralph Hodgson
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
—Franz Kafka
I keep hearing from the woods a belief
in wind as if there must be a belief in something.
—Jennifer Militello, from “Manifestation” in Flinch of Song (Tupelo Press, 2009)
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
―Franz Kafka
Structure becomes an element of belief, syntax
And grammar a catechist,
Their words what the beads say,
words thumbed to our discontent.
—Charles Wright, from “Chickamauga” in Chickamauga (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995)
Vesper
A night when God means nothing will be the night
When stars no longer speak, anvil silent
From already trying to awe others
Into believing in some answer
That has no voice. They’ll mock passing hours
Short-wicked with vigil light when a dark cathedral
Does not hide its Big Empty too well, altar
Candles wing-burning into something far
Less than the room’s tiny universe,
Shadow-flamed & God-quiet. Something stirs
A longing one no longer had. Faith lightens
That stone of silence at the end of amen.
Outside, the last leaves preach their own gospel,
Bless-uss, Bless-uss, black oak canopy cradled
Beneath the forgiveness of soft-spoken starlight.
—Greg Sellers, from Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, v.4, no.2, Fall 2004 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
“Fiction’s inside like faith.
It doesn’t count unless you believe it, and
you don’t have to know it for it to be the truth.”
—Rodney Jones
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