“… the true sense of
‘Let be be the finale of seem’
is
‘let being become the conclusion or denouement of appearing to be’….”
— Wallace Stevens, letter to Henry Church, June 1, 1939
Update of 6:21 PM ET:
Related remark from The New York Times today —
“In a 2000 interview with the newspaper Libération ,
Mr. Dupond set forth his credo as an artist:
‘To please, seduce, divert, enchant;
I feel that I have only ever lived for this.’”
“datePublished”:”2021-03-13T17:02:01.000Z”,
“headline”:”Patrick Dupond, French Ballet Virtuoso, Dies at 61″
“At the still point, there the dance is.”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot