“And I Dream Too Much And I Don’t Write Enough And I’m Trying To Find God Everywhere.”

An illustration of how the 5th century BCE Erechtheion on the Athenian acropolis may have looked with its original paintwork.

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.”

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Edgar Allan Poe

— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo

[text ID: but the sunflower is mine in a way.]

'people have always been people' goes for simple human compassion & humor but only if it also means understanding that historical people have always been as complex and nuanced and innovative as they are now. their food and clothing and language and tools, particularly of ordinary people, however different than you're used to, should not be assumed to represent cultural inferiority or that those people had inferior tastes or intelligence or capacity for feeling than you do

i love the conclave. what do you mean the entire world has tv cameras trained on the chimney of an old italian palace waiting for days or weeks until the color of the smoke changes and we find out who’s been elected as the next supreme dictator of catholicism

Separation, W. S. Merwin

Prologue to F. Dostoevsky's 'Demons' by Jorge Luis Borges

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

The Dread Purr-ate Roberts