I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
– Pablo Neruda, from “Every Day You Play”, in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, trans. W.S. Merwin (via the-final-sentence) Via The final sentence.We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Perhaps love is essential because it’s unnecessary.
– A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes
Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
– J. D. Salinger, Catcher In The Rye (via bookmania) Via Book Mania!To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I’m made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
– Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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