Dave J.

“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
― Joseph Addison

“When you're sincere about doing something, you're stalked by the fear that there's no turning back.”
― Inio Asano, Solanin

“To live at all is miracle enough.
The doom of nations is another thing.
Here in my hammering blood-pulse is my proof.

Let every painter paint and poet sing
And all the sons of music ply their trade;
Machines are weaker than a beetle’s wing.

Swung out of sunlight into cosmic shade,
Come what come may the imagination’s heart
Is constellation high and can’t be weighed.

Nor greed nor fear can tear our faith apart
When every heart-beat hammers out the proof
That life itself is miracle enough.”
― Mervyn Peake, Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings

“The vastest things are those we may not learn.
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.”
― Mervyn Peake, Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings