Only in the Garden, where he was created,
Can man sustain the tension between spirit
And flesh indefinitely. Without its laws
He tries to become God or else a beast,
With the same tragic outcome: self-destruction.
Jerusalem
25 April 1999
Only in the Garden, where he was created,
Can man sustain the tension between spirit
And flesh indefinitely. Without its laws
He tries to become God or else a beast,
With the same tragic outcome: self-destruction.
Jerusalem
25 April 1999
How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And
Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and