"Talent is love, Tolstoy once said. The idea that great art is made out of love and can only be comprehended through love recurs through history in defiance of schools, traditions, aesthetics and ideologies. Love unleavened, of course, leads to kitsch. But with the yeast of circumstance, history and ambition added, enduring work sometimes arises."

-- Richard Flanagan

(From What Do You Do, Mr Gable? - short pieces)

We are the bees of the invisible

 “We are bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the invisible, to store it in the great golden hives of the invisible.”

-- Rilke