Art is rarely right; it is built upon mistakes, trials and errors, crossings-out, doubt and uncertainty. No reaching after irritable fact and reason as Keats put it in his famous definition of negative capability…
Read MoreEmily Dickinson’s line, ‘The Gambrels of the Sky’ soars imperiously upwards, pushing up from the ‘leg’ of the gambrels — the ‘jamb’ the French say — the hip of the house where the sloping roof meets the side…
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