I recently read “Findings” by Kathleen Jamie. She quoted a short phrase from a Louis MacNeice poem in one of her essays…….
World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.
This is from his poem, “Snow“. She only quoted the last two words “incorrigibly plural”……..one of those phrases which I read and which suddenly stops me from reading any further. What amazing phrase! I know how the unpredictability of life can be confusing, even scary, but I love how life can’t be pinned down by a single formula. I love how life constantly surprises us……way beyond what we could expect or imagine. And I love the complexity of world…….there’s always more to discover, always more to explore.
Love the quote and thoughts you have about it. I agree. There is so much to embrace!
I, too, was stopped in my tracks by that phrase. There is sense of such excitement when language surprises us in that way. Words rock!