— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

"I need so little: a bottle of ink, a speck of sun on the floor – and you;"

 - Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Vera

"Lolita discussed by the papers from every possible point of view except one: that of its beauty and pathos. Critics prefer to look for moral symbols, justification, condemnation or explanation of HH's predicament....I wish, though, somebody would notice the tender de­scription of the child's helplessness, her pathetic dependence on mon­strous HH, and her heartrending courage all along, culminating in that squalid but essentially pure and healthy marriage, and her letter, and her dog. And that terrible expression on her face when she had been cheated by HH out of some little pleasure that had been promised. They all miss the fact that ‘the horrid little brat’ Lolita is essentially very good indeed—or she would not have straightened out after being crushed so terribly, and found a decent life with poor Dick more to her liking than the other kind." - Véra Nabokov

In art his love cannot die

I’m okay. I’m definitely okay. I’m as okay as he was when he wrote this

Vera and Vladamir Nabokov

I'm so smart and so sexy, I'm a professor emerititties at Cumlumbia.

Non lo nascondo: sono così disabituato a essere - insomma, capito, credo - mi ci sono così disabituato che nei primissimi minuti del nostro incontro ho pensato: questo è uno scherzo, una farsa...

- lettera di Vladimir Nabokov a Vera Slonim

Vladimir Nabokov, from letter to Vera Nabokov dated July 1923, featured in Letters to Vera

I am becoming more and more firmly convinced that art is the only thing that matters in life.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter featured in Letters to Vera published in 2014

love is the fabric of the universe.

vladmir nabokov in a 1926 letter to his wife véra // la traviata, giuseppe verdi // the antennae galaxies in the midst of colliding, x // speak, memory, vladimir nabokov // heart and soul nebulae, x // interstellar (2014), dir. christopher nolan // divan i shams, rumi

not nabokov having synesthesia (associating colors with particular letters) and his wife vera also having synesthesia but associating different colors to the same letters and their son dmitri ALSO having synesthesia and some of his colors being a blend of his parents’…the world is beautiful & love is literally everywhere

Laura Gilpin The Two-Headed Calf // Linda Pastan Why Are Your Poems so Dark? // Margaret Atwood Shapechangers In Winter // @/doeantlers (twitter) // Vladimir Nabokov Letters to Vera // Ada Limón Dead Stars // @xshayarsha

— Vladimir Nabokov in a letter to his wife Véra, 8 July 1926.