Zoe

“Ours is the universe of the unfolded rose,
The explicit,
The candid revelation.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

“While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn To Intellectual Beauty

“And it seemed to her that kisses, voices, tinkling spoons, laughter, the smell of crushed grass were somehow inside her.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories

“The substitute gratifications, such as art offers, are illusions in contrast to reality, but none the less satisfying to the mind on that account, thanks to the place which phantasy has reserved for herself in mental life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents