“Poetry And Art And Knowledge Are Sacred And Pure.”

I long for a large room to myself, with books and nothing else, where I can shut myself up, and see no one, and read myself into peace.

Virginia Woolf, Letter to Violet Dickinson

reading in bed. painting by marta astrain.

hearing Americans speak in real life is so jarring omfg... Get back in the TV right now

'You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.'

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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946

Sarah Perry, The Essence of Peopling