Friday, June 23, 2006

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
WH Auden

I'm not sure I entirely agree with this. The eye will return again and again to a particular object of beauty, for example, but I think it's quite thought provoking.