understood-while

Updated: June 3, 2025

And everybody understood something none of them understood-while tea went on as usual to the chatter of daily details of external life. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.

Algernon Blackwood - A Prisoner in Fairyland