Words for thought
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty, so ancient and so new, late have I loved you. For behold you were within me, and I outside; and I sought you outside and in my unloveliness fell upon those lovely things which you have made. You were with me, and I was not with you. I was kept from you by those things, yet had they not been in you, they would not have been at all. You called and cried to me to break open my deafness and you sent forth your beams and you shone upon me and chased away my blindness…”
- St. Augustine, City of God
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These words open chapter 43 of Mary Karr’s Lit, which I highly recommend. Thanks to Alissa for tipping me off.
4 comments
beautiful.
I’m adding that book to my reading list.
I just read a review of this book in Brain, Child - it was part of a 3 book review and this was the only one of the 3 that the reviewer thought contained quality writing and reflection, worthy of the name Lit (the ambiguous name…). I’m looking forward to reading it. Thanks!
nice… enjoy the read, ladies! i am adding her previous two memoirs to my summer reading list: cherry and the liar’s club.
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