Oscar Wilde, From At Verona

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sorrow”, Collected Poems

Seraphine Saintclair, “The Winglessness”

Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. - Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German historian and philosopher

She naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel herself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

mary oliver, the pond

Sasha Chorny, translated by Bernard Meares, from “My Love,” written c. 1919

“If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

Kim Addonizio, from "'Round Midnight'", What Is This Thing Called Love

“I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself: I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, ‘Fuck, I can’t read two-thirds of these books.’ It overwhelms me with sadness.”

— David Bowie, 2002