2023-10-29 - The Taste of Honey by Edna Worthley Underwood
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Redon lived the life worth while. What a vulgar stupidity is money
beside it! It can give neither ideas, emotions, nor even
comprehension or appreciation of what money can buy. The pure joy of
the heart is honey. It dwells hidden in deep centers of flower-gold.
It is not easy to find nor procure. God has to send his winged
messengers to collect the honey of the heart.
Odilon Redon
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Our land is too new, young, too devoted to the fleeting thing self,
which has progressed no further than today, than that reasoning mind
with which as children we used to learn the multiplication table. The
creating of art has no little in common with teaching of Eastern
philosophies, the death of self. It, too, is an effect of time. It is
proof of rich ripening, under multiple suns. Old World nations
possess this in some degree. The sorrows of much living and
contending faiths have taught them. In addition, Good wears many
faces. Deeper spiritual revelation is theirs, enveloping, then
penetrating the subject under discussion, with something sweeter,
more eloquent, than the sumptuous sunsets of Lorraine, something to
be sought among masters, as wild honey is sought in the forest. To
the mind, indeed, that is what it resembles, The Taste of Honey. It
is something that all but shatters with delight, blinds with
unshakable truth.
author: Underwood, Edna Worthley, 1873-1961
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LOC: PS3541.N55 T3
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