SnowMercy

“She was fire and life.

She was awe and starlight.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“To know thyself -- in others, self discern;
Would'st thou know others? Read thyself -- and learn!”
― Shiller, Votive Tablets

“The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

“To —
In vision I roamed the flashing Firmament,
So fierce in blazon that the Night waxed wan,
As though with awe at orbs of such ostént;
And as I thought my spirit ranged on and on
In footless traverse through ghast heights of sky,
To the last chambers of the monstrous Dome,
Where stars the brightest here are lost to the eye:
Then, any spot on our own Earth seemed Home!
And the sick grief that you were far away
Grew pleasant thankfulness that you were near,
Who might have been, set on some foreign Sphere,
Less than a Want to me, as day by day
I lived unware, uncaring all that lay
Locked in that Universe taciturn and drear.”
― Thomas Hardy