An Artist
"What does it mean "to write well"?
An artist--using the word in its genuine rather than childish meaning-is not a craftsman who knows how to evenly distribute "lively images", "telling details of everyday life", "colorful landscapes", and other trifles in his books; an artist is the one who finds a rhythm unknown before, and enlives and permeates the world he has created by this rhythm."
-Nabokov
Nettie, to find the genuine in what seems ordinary, to find the ordinary simplicity in what may have been hidden, to find melody in a sound still unheard or, perhaps, not yet listened, to find grace that came just before an awkward, clumsy step, to find the whimsical innocence of that which we define as devine, to find the beginning of a path passed over so many times before: my unworthy attempt to explain Nabokov (:)) and comment-in-poetry about your lovely, beautiful, elegant, and wonderful images. Merci.
Nettie, to find the genuine in what seems ordinary, to find the ordinary simplicity in what may have been hidden, to find melody in a sound still unheard or, perhaps, not yet listened, to find grace that came just before an awkward, clumsy step, to find the whimsical innocence of that which we define as devine, to find the beginning of a path passed over so many times before: my unworthy attempt to explain Nabokov (:)) and comment-in-poetry about your lovely, beautiful, elegant, and wonderful images. Merci.
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