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“The very reason why that poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have (at luncheon parties before the war perhaps), so that one responds easily, familiarly, without troubling to check the feeling, or to compare it with any that one has now.”
― Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection
― Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection
“Every rock and stream is a myth.”
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
“How enjoyable, how very enjoyable and luxurious it is, suddenly to emerge from the stern labyrinth of fact onto these dawn-lit uplands of surmise!”
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
“Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.”
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“When Paris, a Trojan prince, stole the beautiful Helen from her husband, the King of Sparta, that,’ he pointed to the Marathonisi, ‘is where the runaways first dropped anchor. They left the caique and spent the first night together on the island. Homer wrote about it. It used to be called Kranae.’ We were dumbfounded. Kranae! I had always wondered where it was. The whole of Gytheion was suddenly transformed. Everything seemed to vanish except the dark silhouette of the island where thousands of years ago that momentous and incendiary honeymoon began among the whispering fennel.”
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
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Em’s 2025 Year in Books
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