Maria

“Η Ποίηση δεν είναι η απελευθέρωση των αισθημάτων, αλλά η δραπέτευση από τα αισθήματα.
Δεν είναι η έκφραση της προσωπικότητας αλλά η δραπέτευση από την προσωπικότητα.
Αλλά θα πρέπει κανείς να έχει αισθήματα και προσωπικότητα για να θέλει να δραπετεύσει από αυτά.”
― T.S. Eliot

“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd. They, too, strove; they, too showed signs of strength and greatness. But as we saw it, whereas we marked men represented Nature's determination to create something new, individual, and forward-looking, the others lived in the determination to stay the same. For them mankind--which they loved as much as we did--was a fully formed entity that had to be preserved and protected. For us mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren't written down anywhere.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
― Montesquieu