Almanac: E.M. Forster on goodness and imperfection
"Much good has been shown me and much evil, and the good has never been perfect. There is always some flaw in it, some defect, some imperfection in the divine image, some fault in the angelic song, some stammer in the divine speech." E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, libretto for Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd (adapted […]