Facets of a Diamond – Blog

The sufferer feels Inspired
by the healer’s Aspiring.

The Soul is the Haven of Healing.

The Ninth’s adagio:
surrender,
succumb –
and live with Beethoven
for ever.

1827:
Blake at death
heard songs “not mine.”
And Beethoven?

1827:
Beethoven and Blake
did sing no more.
And since that ancient time,
no feet have walked
in their Garden of Love.

“By a deeper apprehension … the artist obtains the power of awakening other souls” 

— Emerson

I would say that by a deeper apprehension of his Soul, the artist helps to awaken others to their Souls.

“The true poem is in the poet’s mind.” 

— Emerson

No – in his Soul, as with the painter’s true painting.

Blake and Catherine in love.
Beethoven not only deaf
– but alone.

Beethoven needed
a Catherine like Blake.
If only…

I meet Hak-san,
my otouto-san,
younger brother
– by two months,
and I find myself singing
“Side by Side.”

It’s like
I get given a song
for every occasion.