You come back home to find yourself there

"And the day goes by, but time stands still."
— Knut Hamsun, Pan

Image: Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758

Title: Attributed to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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You do not have to leave to arrive.
— Andrea Gibson

[image: August Natterer]

The Blind Astronomer

 

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
—Elias Canetti

[Image: Found]

What I Count On

what I count on
is a white birch
that stands
where no human language
is ever heard.


-Yosano Akiko, "What I Count On"

Photo: Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés

 

Valéry on Dictionaries and Ghosts

It’s most instructive when you can’t find the right word — it can prove that you’re truly envisaging a mental fact, and not a ghost from a dictionary.

— Paul Valéry, Cahiers/Notebooks (1900)


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