"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
— ANNE SEXTON, from Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward.
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Wandering aimlessly among old paintings, losing myself in their silent poetry
you weren’t a “well behaved” child you had anxiety and were terrified of conflict
~ Joseph Campbell
You know what? FUCK WORK I’m going to walk around a CEMETERY while reading POETRY!
how many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
— Virginia Woolf