John Anders’s Reviews > Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair > Status Update

“A dear friend of mine whose [art] has come to nothing (publicly, that is) writes in a letter, "I remain loyal to the irrationality of it," which makes perfect piercing sense, because what else that most matters in life do we find and keep by way of reason? Love? God?”

― Christian Wiman

Wiman articulating something I’ve always carried in my soul but can never quite say:


“And if you are not lonely under this dividing and indifferent blue, if you do not feel, even amid your moments of happiness, some absolute inwardness that is absolute otherness, then, friend, you are either preternaturally enlightened or completely unconscious.”