Ikon of the Nativity of the Lord"[The artist being aware of his own vulnerability within his art] has in it all the mystery of the relation of the maker with things made. There falls on it from afar even some dark ray of the irony of God, who was mocked when He entered His own world, and killed when He came among His creatures."
-- G.K. Chesterton, Chaucer, 1932
"Elder father, though thine eyes
Shine with hoary mysteries,
Canst thou tell what in the heart
Of a cowslip blossom lies?"
"Smaller than all lives that be,
Secret as the deepest sea,
Stands a little house of seeds,
Like an elfin granary."
"Speller of the stones and weeds,
Skilled in Nature's crafts and creed,
Tell me what is in the heart
Of the smallest of the seeds?"
"God Almighty, and with Him
Cherubim and Serpahim,
Filling all eternity --
Adonai Elohim."
-- G.K. Chesterton, "Holy of Holies," 1927
