Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, March 6, 1915

Evening to Party at School.  Such events are as much a part of me no doubt as the poetry of nature yet belongs more to the physical world - the laugh and talk of things we know not what, the rhythmic swaying to the dance of body to body, the pure abandonement  [sic] of action and lack of thought - and seem to require less of recording or expression than the more subtle + fleeting visions of the mind . . .

Each day I tell myself I will bring here something of my personal life – something of my friends, and each time such things seem the more inexpressable.

Charles E. Burchfield, March 6, 1915