René Magritte, "The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James)," 1937
Some will mutter that you are not too bright
Most citizens of imagination
Are odd in public, but in dreams delight
Prone are they to grim self-flagellation
For they recognize that real and ideal
Seldom match, in our ordinary world
Filled are they with a wild, quixotic zeal
For what could be, being in what is hurled
Distracted by the mind’s private glory
They disdain public mediocrity
Or find from it, refuge in story
What joy there is in their obscurity!
Do not mistake the dreamer for a fool
Exceptions reveal defects of the rule
About the Creator
D. J. Reddall
I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
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