Robert Lax: "Life is beautiful because it is holy."


Robert Lax
(1915-2000)
Robert Lax and Thomas Merton met as students at Columbia University (my Alma Mater) in 1935 and became lifelong friends. In his old age, Lax lived on the island of Patmos (where John the Evangelist wrote Book of Revelations). Lax looked like Saint Jerome or Saint Anthony, one of the Desert Fathers. I love his "Poem 27" from A Thing That Is

Life is not holy
because it is beautiful.

It is beautiful
because it is holy.
— Robert Lax (1915-2000),

     A Thing That Is, Poem 27
     (Ed. Paul J. Spaeth, Overlook Press,
     Woodstock, NY, 1997, p. 47



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