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and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying 

gold of the one; and make the other toss the pale purple of its 

plumes; so that all the air shall be Arabia for me。  Linnaeus fell 

on his knees and wept for joy when he saw for the first time the 

long heath of some English upland made yellow with the tawny 

aromatic brooms of the common furze; and I know that for me; to 

whom flowers are part of desire; there are tears waiting in the 

petals of some rose。  It has always been so with me from my 

boyhood。  There is not a single colour hidden away in the chalice 

of a flower; or the curve of a shell; to which; by some subtle 

sympathy with the very soul of things; my nature does not answer。  

Like Gautier; I have always been one of those 'pour qui le monde 

visible existe。'



Still; I am conscious now that behind all this beauty; satisfying 

though it may be; there is some spirit hidden of which the painted 

forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation; and it is with 

this spirit that I desire to become in harmony。  I have grown tired 

of the articulate utterances of men and things。  The Mystical in 

Art; the Mystical in Life; the Mystical in Nature this is what I am 

looking for。  It is absolutely necessary for me to find it 

somewhere。



All trials are trials for one's life; just as all sentences are 

sentences of death; and three times have I been tried。  The first 

time I left the box to be arrested; the second time to be led back 

to the house of detention; the third time to pass into a prison for 

two years。  Society; as we have constituted it; will have no place 

for me; has none to offer; but Nature; whose sweet rains fall on 

unjust and just alike; will have clefts in the rocks where I may 

hide; and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed。  

She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the 

darkness without stumbling; and send the wind over my footprints so 

that none may track me to my hurt:  she will cleanse me in great 

waters; and with bitter herbs make me whole。











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