Solemn Sadness

...the solemn sadness that dwells in all great things - in high mountains and in great men, in profound nights and in eternal poems.

Fernando Pessoa

Reading

“There are worse crimes than burning books,” Joseph Brodsky said. “One of them is not reading them.”

The Pleasure Of Life

We eat, excrete, sleep, and get up;
This is our world
All we have to do beyond that
Is to die.

Ikkyu Sojun - (1394-1481)

Works of Art

"Against our real world, which, by its very nature, is fleeting and worthy of forgetting, works of art stand as a different world, a world that is ideal, solid, where every detail has its importance, its meaning, where everything in it -- every word, every phrase -- deserves to be unforgettable and was conceived to be such." ·

THE CURTAIN An Essay in Seven Parts By Milan Kundera