Robert Aris Willmott - A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent onl

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.

- Robert Aris Willmott

topic: Spiritual, Children, Book, Spenser