Anja

“One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane”
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

“Love takes hostages.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I wouldn’t say so. I’ve told people I’m a medieval historian when asked what I do. It freezes conversation. If one tells them one’s a poet, one gets these odd looks which seem to say, “Well, what’s he living off?” In the old days a man was proud to have in his passport, Occupation: Gentleman. Lord Antrim’s passport simply said, Occupation: Peer—which I felt was correct. I’ve had a lucky life. I had a happy home, and my parents provided me with a good education. And my father was both a physician and a scholar, so I never got the idea that art and science were opposing cultures—both were entertained equally in my home. I cannot complain. I’ve never had to do anything I really disliked. Certainly I’ve had to do various jobs I would not have taken on if I’d had the money; but I’ve always considered myself a worker, not a laborer. So many people have jobs they don’t like at all. I haven’t, and I’m grateful for that.”
― W.H. Auden

“Sleepless people were bound by a wordless solidarity.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon