Quote of the Day (John Dryden, Invoking the World’s ‘Creator Spirit’)

“Creator Spirit, by whose aid

The World's Foundations first were laid,

Come, visit ev'ry pious Mind;

Come, pour thy Joys on Human Kind;

From Sin, and Sorrow set us free;

And make thy Temples worthy Thee.”—English poet John Dryden (1631-1700), Veni, Creator Spiritus (“Come, Creator Spirit”) (1693), in Dryden (The Laurel Poetry Series), general editor Richard Wilbur (1962)

(The image accompanying this post is The Creation of the Animals, a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Tintoretto in 1550. It is displayed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.)