POETRY

"Immortality"
We must pass like smoke, or live within the spirits' fire;
For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return.
If our thought has changed to dream, or will into desire,
As smoke we vanish o'er the fires that burn.

Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk of our days;
Surely here is soul; with it we have eternal breath;
In the fire of love we live or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.

 
"Germinal" 

In ancient shadows and twilights
Where childhood had strayed,
The world’s great sorrows were born
And its heroes were made.
In the lost boyhood of Judas
Christ was betrayed.  

Let thy young wanderer dream on:
Call him not home.
A door opens, a breath a voice
From the ancient room,
Speaks to him now. Be it dark or bright
He is knit with his doom.

 Vale and Other Poems (1931)

ART

A great lanscape is the expression of a mood of the human mind as definitely as music or poetry is.  The artist is communicating his own emotions.   There is some mystic significance in the color he employs; and then the doorways are opened, and we pass from sense into soul.  AE p38 Imaginations and Reveries

 
ARTIST
Whether a picture is moral or immoral will depend upon the character of the artist, and not upon the subject.  A man will communicate his character in everything he touches.  he cannot escape communicating it. He must be content with that silent witness, and not let the virtues shout out from his pictures. In fact art is essentially a spiritual thing, and its vision is perpetually turned to Ultimates.  It is indefinable as spirit is.  It perceives in life and nature those indefinable relations of one thing to another which to the religious thinker suggest a master mind in nature - a magician of the beautiful at work from hour to hour, from moment to moment, in a never-ceasing and solemn chariot motion in the heavens, in the perpetual marvelous breathing forth of winds, in the motion of waters, and in the unending evolution of gay and delicate forms of leaf and wing. AE p35 Imaginations and Reveries