"There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed."
~ Washington Irving
🎨George Elgar Hicks
“How doth the little busy bee 🐝
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower.”
Isaac Watts, Against Idleness, 1715
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An evensong I heard beyond the hill,
Whose water'd notes did cleanse my aching heart;
And its gentle breeze of dew-spun amber chill,
Did weave a tale to draw me from afar.
~ Cian
'Fantasy in Twilight' (1911) 🎨 Edward Robert Hughes
“When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.”
- Confucius The Doctrine of the Mean.
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‘ I imagine the earth when I am no more: Noting happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant, (...) dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born. Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.’ - Czeslaw Milosz | @evastrus
"Delicately, like the petals of a flower. Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh? ... The floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm."
-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#ClassicLitMonday
“His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
More dazzled and drove back his enemies
Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.“
—Henry VI, Part 1 [I, 1]
#ShakespeareSunday#BlackSails
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