04-06-2016, 06:33 AM
The Dreamer and the Critic
Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool by David Hockney http://www.artfund.org/assets/what-to-se...llery1.jpg
The line of dream is crisp and clean,
a diagram of thought and lust,
given to us without a preen
(like that belonging to a naughty bust,
allowed backstage by the pantomime dame).
'It is perfect' agree critics,
'much too perfect and crystalline.
It holds us as critics apart,
without an agreeable gaudiness.'
But is not that what dreams are meant to do?
The mind arranges, tidies up,
it gives us shapes on which to gorge,
squares and rectangles. Let me sup...
a dreamer below these critical hordes.
Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool by David Hockney http://www.artfund.org/assets/what-to-se...llery1.jpg
The line of dream is crisp and clean,
a diagram of thought and lust,
given to us without a preen
(like that belonging to a naughty bust,
allowed backstage by the pantomime dame).
'It is perfect' agree critics,
'much too perfect and crystalline.
It holds us as critics apart,
without an agreeable gaudiness.'
But is not that what dreams are meant to do?
The mind arranges, tidies up,
it gives us shapes on which to gorge,
squares and rectangles. Let me sup...
a dreamer below these critical hordes.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe