Sunday, September 12, 2010

Thought for the Day

My continuing passion is to part a curtain,
that invisible shadow that falls between people—
the veil of indifference to each other's presence,
each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
~ Eudora Welty, Novelist, Short Story Writer

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Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001, Biography

Eudora Welty Bibliography

Eudora Welty Foundation (Jackson, Mississippi)

Eudora Welty House

Eudora Welty Review

Patti Carr Black (Ed.), Eudora Welty's World: Words on Nature (Edge Press, 2005)

T.A. Frail, "Eudora Welty as Photographer", Smithsonian Magazine, April 2009

7 comments:

Kathleen Overby said...

Ok. Yes. Wow. Gulp.

S. Etole said...

Yes, what a good parting that would be ...

Louise Gallagher said...

The world is better for having had her presence. We are richer for hearing her voice.

Thank you for this quote -- fabulous!

Louise Gallagher said...

PS. Hope you've have a great weekend!

Anonymous said...

eudora...cool name!

and i like the quote.

A. Jay Adler said...

What an essential statement: "to part a curtain - the veil of indifference to each other's presence." That's it.

Brian Miller said...

excellent quote and viewpoint...i hope to part that curtain somedays myself...thanks for the intro to your friend the photographer over at one shot as well..