August 2011
“Frailty, thy name is Jessica.”
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”
– Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
“I’ve kept a rein on my life whispering in a boundless silence
I no longer know...”
– George Seferis, from “Epiphany, 1937,”
“Lovely one, your eyes are too big for your face, your eyes are too big for the earth. There are countries, there are rivers, in your eyes.”
Pablo Neruda
“Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions....”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 4 January 1929
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness...”
– Fernando Pessoa
“Threats, promises, and good intentions don’t amount to actions.”
– Cheshire Cat [Alice: Madness Returns]
