| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: a bitter one to bear, let us say that every one is worthy of love,
except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should
be taken kneeling, and DOMINE, NON SUM DIGNUS should be on the lips
and in the hearts of those who receive it.
If ever I write again, in the sense of producing artistic work,
there are just two subjects on which and through which I desire to
express myself: one is 'Christ as the precursor of the romantic
movement in life': the other is 'The artistic life considered in
its relation to conduct.' The first is, of course, intensely
fascinating, for I see in Christ not merely the essentials of the
supreme romantic type, but all the accidents, the wilfulnesses
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: Why, my lovely girl, that you may take him under
your protection, as Madame Ramboulliet did young
Stanhope; that you may, by your plastic hand, mould
this uncouth cub into a gentleman. He is to make
love to you.
JENNY
Make love to me!--
JESSAMY
Yes, Mistress Jenny, make love to you; and, I doubt
not, when he shall become domesticated in your kitchen,
that this boor, under your auspices, will soon become
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Smile on me, thou art fair!
I have given the last memento of my sister Emily; this is the last
of my sister Anne:--
I hoped, that with the brave and strong,
My portioned task might lie;
To toil amid the busy throng,
With purpose pure and high.
But God has fixed another part,
And He has fixed it well;
I said so with my bleeding heart,
When first the anguish fell.
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