“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.” PeopleMayDoeSoulEnoughRealityEyeFallEmotionBeautyCreationFalling In LoveIntenseArtisticPerceiveTallInwardMarvelousGlimpseNature BeautyExhilarationTiptoesArtistic CreationIntense Emotions Author:Margaret Prescott Montague
“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.” WritingTryingKindMayBookUseOrderSidesIntellectParadoxUsualGlimpse Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention