So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
-Alexander Pope
Where the man-made pool meets the magnificent sea…
“As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.”
James Joyce, Ulysses
“You can’t possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It’s absurd. I never go without my dinner.”
-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“You will be fine,’ the fortune teller says. ‘There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.” – Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee…”
– from “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe