What is important?
Living as active a life as possible,
meeting all ranks of people, plenty of travel,
trying your hand at various kinds of work,
keeping your eyes, ears, and mind open,
remembering what you observe,
reading plenty of good books,
and writing every day—-simply writing.
-Edward Abby

“Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.”
-Edward Fitzgerald

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
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