Currently reading: First We Read, Then We Write by Robert D. Richardson 📚

But we live after all in that “weary kingdom of time,” and Emerson’s idea of art, of poetry, fits satisfyingly into this world as he says, in the essay’s high point and culminating line, “Art is the path of the creator to his work.” One cannot not repeat it enough; art is not the finished work, art is the getting there.