“I'm a born librarian with a sex drive”

“I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”

― Ezra Pound

“Nostos,” by Louise Glück

“Consider how every individual is affected by an overall philosophical justification of his way of living and thinking. He experiences it as a sun that shines especially for him, bestowing warmth, blessings, and fertility.”

—The Gay Science, §289 (edited excerpt).

“Even one’s thoughts one cannot reproduce entirely in words.”

—The Gay Science, §244.

Passengers on a tourist ship see work going on on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1946.