Art is affirmation.

“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”

“If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / The…”

“It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertio…”

“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. …”