"The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows."
~ Gabriel García Márquez
At the Cove, Cala Sant Vicenç
🎨 Joaquín Sorolla (1919)
"You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
~ Albert Camus
A Splendid Treat of Words 🥰
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"An hour is not merely an hour: it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates."
~ Marcel Proust
The Seashore (1905)
🎨 Jean Metzinger
"You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wheatfield and Mountains (1889)
🎨 Vincent van Gogh
"We must go for walks out of doors, so that the mind can be strengthened and invigorated by a clear sky and plenty of fresh air."
~ Seneca
“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
🎨 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.”
~ Virginia Woolf
Perfect little poem for a Sunday.
• John Clare •
This always makes me well up.
• Laura Gilpin •