Blue Marble

“A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way”
― Marcel Proust

“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald