The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
“Crimson the hearth where one last ember glows!
My heart’s new winter hath no such relief,
Nor thought of Spring whose blossom he hath known
Hath turned him back where Spring is banished.
Barren the heart and dead the fires there,
Blow! O ye ashes, where the winds shall please,
But cry, ’Love also is the Yearly Slain.’”
Ezra Pound | “Canzon: The Yearly Slain”