folly
Art is folly. Love is folly. Probably life is also folly
Better folly than vanity, which is the word from that despairing preacher who wrote Ecclesiastes.
This picture was taken as I was delivering the inaugural Frank Byatt Memorial Lecture at the WIlliamstown Uniting Church.
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Poetry is folly. My lifetime has delivered two published poems. One is on Christian Folly. The other is even more serious, on metaphysical foundations.
Only the Fool could speak jesting truth to the monarch