Lucia

“None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.”
― Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man”
― John Morley (Viscount Morley)

“As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
’Neath every one a friend.”
― James Russell Lowell, Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1: Colonial through Romantic