Reads tagged with “diaries”
Thoreau on Living Through Loss
“Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident.”
May Sarton on How to Live Openheartedly in a Harsh World
“We have to keep the channels in ourselves open to pain. At the same time it is essential that true joys be experienced, that the sunrise not leave us unmoved, for civilization depends on the true joys.”
The Unphotographable: Jack Kerouac’s Soaring Diary Entry About Self-Understanding and the Elemental Vastness of the Windblown World
Kierkegaard on How to Save Yourself
“I am, in the deepest sense, an unhappy individual who since my earliest days have been nailed fast to some suffering close to insanity.”
Loneliness and the Trinity of Creativity: Ada Lovelace, the Poles of the Mind, and the Source of Her Imaginative Powers
“Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds… may then with the fair white wings of Imagination hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.”
What the Heart Keeps When the Mind Goes: May Sarton on Loving a Loved One Through Dementia
On remaining in loving contact with the intangible, immutable part of the self.
Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Almost Unbearably Sweet Account of Sole-Parenting His Small Son
“Mercy on me, was ever man before so be-pelted with a child’s talk as I am! It is his desire of sympathy that lies at the bottom of the great heap of his babblement.”
Mushrooms: The Story Behind Sylvia Plath’s Poem About the Tenacity of the Creative Spirit
“Our foot’s in the door.”
Virginia Woolf on the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater and the Remedy for Self-Doubt
“One must face the despicable vanity which is at the root of all this niggling and haggling.”
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