“She Believed A Great Happiness Awaited Her Somewhere, And For This Reason She Remained Calm As The

Alex Dimitrov, from "Love", Love and Other Poems

birds hover the trampled field, richard siken

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

“—I want to change: I want to stop fear’s subtle / guidance of my life—”

— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “California Plush”

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, there were more delicate existences and even a certain luxury of the soul. She knew that there were a lot of things she didn’t know how to understand.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star.

“If by romantic they mean someone who dreams, I am a romantic, but I shall keep my crown of dreams a secret.”

— Anais Nin, 1917

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh