Emma

“Hamilton, the human word machine,”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.

--from "The Moon and the Yew Tree", written 22 October 1961”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde