Adagio of islands, O my Prodigal
John Martin -(Paradise Lost) Satan Viewing the Ascent to Heaven
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Her eyes, unmake an instant of the world…
And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind! (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.
My word I poured. But was it cognate, scored
Of that tribunal monarch of the air
Whose thigh embronzes earth, strikes crystal Word
In wounds pledged once to hope, —cleft to despair?
—From Hart Crane’s “The Broken Tower”
τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν”
Ta onta ienai te panta kai menein ouden
“All entities move and nothing remains still”
—Heraclitus in Plato’s Cratylus (401d)
Emily Dickinson’s handwritten manuscript of “Wild Nights”
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
-T.S. Eliot, from The Waste Land
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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59 Things You Didn't Know About Virginia Woolf
- After getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her wedding ring in a suet pudding.
- Woolf listened to Beethoven’s late quartets while writing The Waves.
- Woolf once discovered a diary she had written during one particular sane and lucid period in her life, and laughed upon rereading it.
- Woolf delighted in the physical act of writing words on paper. From the age of 11, she was continually experimenting with different kinds of pens in hope of finding one that would provide the perfect sensation.
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