Andrei Vylinski

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
― David Hume

“The Poem"

It was like getting a love letter from a tree

Eyes closed forever to find you–

There is a life which
if I could have it
I would have chosen for myself from the beginning”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“Michiko Nogami (1946—1982)”

Is she more apparent because she is not
anymore forever? Is her whiteness more white
because she was the color of pale honey?
A smokestack making the sky more visible.
A dead woman filling the whole world. Michiko
said, “The roses you gave me kept me awake
with the sound of their petals falling.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires