The mediocre mind is eager to accept the impossible supernatural things, but scoffs at the most ordinary natural phenomena.
In the midst of confusion, I long for solitude.
But I saw a wind-blown maple in the rain today.
As I was looking over [Howard] Pyle’s wonder work — King Arthur – I thought of the great men who have achieved great things and felt that a powerful self-controlled mind must be behind it all – at which I despaired of my own work –
Does the sun still shine over misty valleys at morning?
Charles E. Burchfield, June 16, 1916