"[W]hen you're my age you'll see that the world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that -- not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts. I don't know you well enough to say, but I should guess you might be a little inclined to -- when one's young and attractive -- I'm going to say it! -- everything's at one's feet."

~Virignia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)

No one is ever holy without suffering.

- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Emily Brontë. 1847. Wuthering Heights. 

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"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

— An excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1821) in honor of World Poetry Day

Me, trying to focus: Brain, concentrate. I'm an adult.

My Horrible Histories kid brain: Stay calm-a when you want to harm a llama, call a llama farmer!!!

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Was published in April 1891.

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

William Faulkner

French woman pours tea for a British soldier during the fighting in Normandy, 1944.

Words strain, Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. Shrieking voices Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, Always assail them.

T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton

How did I ever think the British Children’s Writer Jacqueline Wilson was straight?:

Jacqueline Wilson describing a boy character: He had dark hair and bright blue eyes, with a friendly smile and stylish clothes.

Jacqueline Wilson describing a girl character: She resembled a goddess, with golden curls that reached her waist, shimmering in the sunlight. Her emerald eyes burned bright with a courageous fire which matched her powerful smirk which left me feeling weak at the knees. Her midnight blue velvet crop top revealed her slim, flawless stomach which was the same ivory hue as the rest of her body, as if she were a priceless diamond.

It’s an exaggeration, sure, but can you tell me I’m wrong?

T. S. Eliot, from “Collected Poems: 1909-1962; The Waste Land: I. The Burial of The Dead”, originally published c. 1963.

"All articulate thought had long ago deserted her; her heart seemed to have grown to the size of a sun, and to illuminate her entire body, shedding like the sun a steady tide of warmth."

~ Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." - William Shakespeare

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“I cuori, come i fiori, non vanno maneggiati rudemente, bensì devono aprirsi spontaneamente.”

-Piccole donne (Louisa May Alcott)