Oorphic-elizza - A La Folie; To Insanity

–Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."

-Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Quiet, yet wild. Rough, and yet gentle,”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Child,”

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

-Michel de Montaigne

“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

oh you’re a writer? how’s doing everything you can to avoid writing going?

I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.

Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)

I wish I could visit buildings/museums like these :)