The heart has its storms, has its seasons of drooping but also its calms and even its times of exaltation. There is a time of sighing and of praying but there is also a time of answer to prayer. Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, 3 November 1876 (via weltenwellen)
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
-Heraclitus
the poet and his muse.
dedicated to my lovely dorian.
14.09.
it was misty this morning. reminded me a lot of ‘Death in Venice’
When Oscar Wilde said, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars," and, "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all," and, "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
I wish I could visit buildings/museums like these :)
Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
—W.E.B. Du Bois The Soul of Black Folk
when the quarantine is over we are bringing back the cult of dionysus
–Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair