"Renew’d in endless notes of glee,
So thirsty of his voice is he,
For all to hear and all to know
That he is joy, awake, aglow,
The tumult of the heart to hear
Through pureness filter’d crystal-clear..."
~ George Meredith
Song of the Lark (1876)
🎨 Winslow Homer
"This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath."
— Margaret Atwood
#welcomesummer#stillness#summerafternoon#literarymood
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
~ G.K. Chesterton
Frühling (Spring)
🎨 Elisabeth von Eicken
“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
@CopyMaverick Couldn't have said it any better! As long as you're producing something good and it's sustainable in your lifestyle, whatever your routine, go for it.
"An hour is not merely an hour: it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates."
~ Marcel Proust
The Seine at La Grande Jatte
🎨 Georges Seurat (1888)