Author: David Schwarm
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XV
Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were, Or they dead leaves; since her delight is flown, For whom should she have wak’d the sullen year? To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear Nor to himself Narcissus, as to both Thou, Adonais; wan they stand…
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Jeanette Winterson Quote
“When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.”~ Jeanette Winterson
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XIV
All he had lov’d, and moulded into thought, From shape, and hue, and odour, and sweet sound, Lamented Adonais. Morning sough Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound, Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground, Dimm’d the aëreal eyes that kindle day; Afar the melancholy thunder moan’d Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay,…
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NOTES FROM Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
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NOTES FROM Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in…
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