Whiteness can be the classic state of the intellect, or a neo-romantic area of remembrance - or as the symbolic whiteness of Mallarmé” - Cy TwomblyĬy Twombly (1928-2011), who grew up around Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, was in many ways very French an intellectual, fascinated with the nature of language, personal anecdotes of love, sex and death permeate his oeuvre. How but in custom and in ceremony Are innocence and beauty born? Ceremony's a name for the rich horn, And custom for the spreading laurel tree.The Sculptures of Cy Twombly “The reality of whiteness may exist in the duality of sensation (as the multiple anxiety of desire and fear).
#A poem for my daughter plaster art 1950 full#
Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?Ĭonsidering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will She can, though every face should scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.Īnd may her bridegroom bring her to a house Where all's accustomed, ceremonious For arrogance and hatred are the wares Peddled in the thoroughfares. If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.Īn intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. My mind, because the minds that I have loved, The sort of beauty that I have approved, Prosper but little, has dried up of late, Yet knows that to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief. O may she live like some green laurel Rooted in one dear perpetual place. May she become a flourishing hidden tree That all her thoughts may like the linnet be, And have no business but dispensing round Their magnanimities of sound, Nor but in merriment begin a chase, Nor but in merriment a quarrel. In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those that are not entirely beautiful Yet many, that have played the fool For beauty's very self, has charm made wise, And many a poor man that has roved, Loved and thought himself beloved, From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone. Helen being chosen found life flat and dull And later had much trouble from a fool, While that great Queen, that rose out of the spray, Being fatherless could have her way Yet chose a bandy-leggèd smith for man.
May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower, And under the arches of the bridge, and scream In the elms above the flooded stream Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
There is no obstacle But Gregory's wood and one bare hill Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind, Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed And for an hour I have walked and prayed Because of the great gloom that is in my mind. Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.
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