1915-, Canadian/American Writer, 1976 Nobel Laureate
Art
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
in Writers at Work , George Plimpton, ed., 1967
Being / Essence / Soul
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by mid-life it is overgrown … But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004