Charles Burchfield, Journals, July 19, 1915

I have commenced reading “The Correspondence of Wagner & Liszt” I am going to find in the personal conversation of these two great artists, a refuge from the materialism of the present age – If I cannot find a sympathetic living soul, the reading of two who are dead, is as great.

I took a walk after sunset tonight along country roads – The pale yellow & blue green afterglow lasted long – Schubert’s unfinished symphonic went thru my mind – The night wind blew a moonlight night across the land after the last light vanished – I dreamed of my future as I went along under the black wind-clattering trees – I fought battles with imaginary critics & grew scornful –

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, July 19, 1915