Kate

“...for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

“But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

“Love's hard insistences are known even to the deathlorn, and perhaps especially so, with death being no more than the initiation of grief, and grief being no more than the mark of love's inevitable loss.”
― Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? … Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
― Virginia Woolf , Orlando