rezonance

The beauty of ruins is a collaborative effort of humanity and nature. People make things with straight edges and nature makes things with curves, so there are very different impulses at play. 

The best art allows natural impulses, even giving them free reign, while maintaining control over the project. It's like a struggle in which the artist is barely in control, and it's that tension that makes the art work resonant. 

I think there can be a completely different drama at play in the writer to the drama that they inspire in the reader. Actually, it's not just that it can be. It necessarily is different. Like, for example, at the end of her introduction to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley talks about all the positive associations of better times that the story has for her. And then she specifically writes: "But this is for myself; my readers have nothing to do with these associations."