“You seem to
resent my Airedales especially. Why, in God's name, should you resent my
enjoying the company of five of God’s most charming little creatures? Breeding
and showing Airedales is a minor art; quite as much so as making fine furniture
or making fine books. You may not realize this, but that is doubtless because
of your ignorance of animals. I have two dogs on the place who are beautiful to
watch in every movement and position and I have two others who are almost as
fascinating; and the fifth is not bad. I would rather have these dogs than,
say, masterpieces of furniture or silver -- as works of art they are quite as
admirable and quite as serious and much more to my taste.”
Note that Winters evaluates and ranks even his beloved Airedales, as though they were beloved poems.
[The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters, ed. R.L. Barth, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 2000.]
[The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters, ed. R.L. Barth, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 2000.]
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