Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, From A Letter Featured In The Life & Letters Of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Fëanor but if he was a fae king

Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

Ada Limon said,  “I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even.” and “I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.” and  Anis Mojgani said, “Will I be something? Am I something? and the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”

"And it is told of Maglor that he could not endure the pain with which the Silmaril tormented him; and he cast it at last into the Sea"

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

late afternoon and the air dissolves to luminous and elongated molecules. A heartfelt mercury as delicate as compelling as the melted movements of your lips

June Jordan, from the Foreword of Haruku/Love Poems

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

-Painting by Ron Hicks

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters