"Nature is a haunted house - but Art - is a house that tries to be haunted."--Emily Dickinson
I found this today while cleaning out the boys' bookshelves. It's from National Poetry Month of this year, sponsered by The Academy of American Poets. I thought it was appropriate, what with Halloween coming soon.
It makes me think - "a house that tries to be haunted." Art tries to sneak into the attics of your brain and rattle around around in there, stirring up dust and long dead people and feelings of your past. Art may disappear from view, but it never leaves your soul. Art, indeed, is haunting.
BOO!
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