long lost quote #1

today, as i started going through various junk drawers and boxes of paperwork, trying to sort out the pile of paper that clutter my life and get rid of the ones that i don't need in my life, i came across a few pieces of inspiring words that have come into my life at various times and seem to have a new found meaning to me as i start on a new adventure.

a photocopies letter that was given to each of the students that i graduated grad school. one of our professors, an amazingly brilliant man that truly helped form the way that i think about art wrote this to each of us and sandwiched it in the front pages of a william carlos williams poetry book:

"it is difficult to
get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there."

written by william carlos williams, at the end of his life and partially paralyzed by a stroke.
that excerpt was followed by john's own advice that is should settle into the minds of all artists and actually i think all people:

"in your work, be true to your vision, your feelings, your beliefs and bring that "news" back to us all"

a simple, yet charged statement that can't help but serve as inspiration. thanks to a man that might never know the profound impact that he has had on some many minds. he changed my life in ways that i did not discover until years later.