Moon phases. Our Wide, Wide World. 1932.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
And our lives have been, in spite of everything, acts of love.
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (via cmyque)
- Hermes
- 4th century BC (Date refers to the original)
- Praxiteles (4th century BC)
- Plaster
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Stamford Hill in North London, home to most of London’s Orthodox Jewish community. I pass through on the bus home.
I am writing this without
light, but one thing I will not do
is love you in the dark.
light, but one thing I will not do
is love you in the dark.
Mary Ruefle, from “Hold That Thought,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 39, no. 1, January/February 2010)
By Vanessa Stockard
me being stubborn 24/7
I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revistied
JOHN TOWNER, Paris, France
Portrait of Lady Sunderland (detail) 1786. Joshua Reynolds
Abbas Kiarostami, from “A Wolf Lying in Wait; Poems,” published c. 2015
—doomed in dreams to Deem thee near
but to awake and find thee gone.
but to awake and find thee gone.
Branwell Brontë, in The Life of Feild Marshall the Right Honourable Alexander Percy, [part of the Angrian Works], as quoted in Juliet Barker’s The Brontës (via antigonick)