Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] - metaphysical sensations as Eastman termed them. Also of a talk of his own on Chinese tapestries & embroideries. At lunch a discussion of Nietsche (sic) and the folly of youth trying to decide for itself what it believes. We agreed that “belief” was a matter of years: i.e. Like the physical body, it slowly evolves and the culmination can only happily be reached late in life. Meantime the mind should be kept open and free like a flower to the sunlight.