Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

"Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rotted viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment.”

W H Auden:

"But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."

Thursday, March 22, 2007

a star to stay our minds on- Chekov

Vijay Padalkar- scholar of Chekov's work and author of much acclaimed Marathi book 'kavadase pakadanaara kalaavant' - tells me:
'
Robert Frost wrote in one of his poems;

"We may choose something like a star/To stay our minds on and be staid"

I have chosen Chekov.'

He is not alone.

Artist : Sidney Harris Publication: The New Yorker 8 April 1985