“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
- Emily Brontë, born on this day in 1818.
↓Art by Rovina Cai
The Folio Society ed.,
"Wuthering Heights"↓
“I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity – it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance" ...
- John Keats
Born in Moorgate, London in 1795, he died on this day, 23 February 1821, Rome.
"My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land ― the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own."
