Thursday, September 26, 2002

terminus as a beginning

...at the end of a day of uncertainty and self-doubt, these words from Madeleine L'Engle brought comfort, not that I hadn't already known the truth they contained. She, by definition included me, and validated my feelings.

from _A Circle of Quiet_

"I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a
painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of
arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with
a stubborn streak of faith in their validity, no matter what."

jim