“Yes, you’ve entered my bloodstream, the room, the whole springtime is filled with you…”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Stephen Mitchell from Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus; “Duino Elegies: The Second Elegy,”
“I only find relief from … sadness … by living a dreamy existence from which realities are excluded…”
Mary Shelley
“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”