T. S. Eliot, the opening lines of “Burnt Norton” (the first poem of “Four Quartets”)

W. B. Yeats and Maud Gonne “She is tall and like a queen out of a saga. Her hair is burnished gold and her eyes are gold, really gold.”

Fernando Pessoa [Selected Prose, tr. by Richard Zenith]

“Each age unwinds the thread another age had wound… all things dying each other’s life, living each other’s death.” W. B. Yeats “I have been part of it always and there is maybe no escape, forgetting and returning life after life like an insect in the roots of the grass.”

W. B. Yeats

Louise Gluck

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire

Joy Harjo • Catching the Light

Cesare Pavese “Memories begin at evening...” tr. by William Arrowsmith

The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else.

“I am saying no to your proposal of marriage as I would say no to any proposal of marriage. This is not a rejection of you. Our illusion systems simply do not coincide.” William S. Burroughs Letters, 1959-1974

Archaeological Park. Paphos. 🇨🇾

Atrani, Amalfi Coast

“No new world without a new language.” Ingeborg Bachmann

James Joyce

“To collect photographs is to collect the world.” Susan Sontag

Marcel Proust Swann's Way