A Flower
“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tag: relationships
Trobadourism: The Idolization of Romance and Its Decadent Consequences, Past and Present
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
– William Shakespeare
Postmodern Pygmalion
“‘Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland’: this is the soundest counsel. But what is this flight? How are we to gain the open sea? For Odysseus is surely a parable to us when he commands the flight from the sorceries of Circe or Calypso — not content to linger for all the pleasure offered to his eyes and all the delight of sense filling his days.
The Fatherland to us is There whence we have come, and There is The Father.”
– Plotinus
Upon A Picture of My Grandfather, Taken at Montevergine
“The Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith.”
– Hillaire Belloc
Snowball Fight
“But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.”
– Matthew 19:14
A Whisper’s Thought
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid.” – John 14:27