Today’s Brilliant Quote

Spotted on Jonathan Carroll’s blog today:

“The secret of life,” said sculptor Henry Moore to poet Donald Hall, “is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.”

Yes, I quite like that. It reminds me of Browning“A man’s reach must exceed his grasp, or else what’s a heaven for?”, and of process enlightenment, of the constructive and infectious madness of Korczak Ziolkowski, and of one of many smart things said by the Great Defender:

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

–Clarence Darrow

Yeah, that’s the classy way to fail.