a message from Oscar

"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body indistinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain."
- Oscar Wilde, from De Profundis