Air Quote by Alexander Smith

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a…

— Howard Thurman

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden…

— H. P. Lovecraft

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my…

— Anne Rice

“The morning after my mother’s death, I was surprised to see the sunrise. From behind the curtain of my bedroom window I was surprised…

— James Campion Conway

“As the prospect gradually revealed itself and disclosed the scene over which the wind had wandered in the dark, like my memory over my…

— Charles Dickens

“Conway answered: “As good a word as most, no doubt. I don’t know whether you classify the people who come here, but if so,…

— James Hilton

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies…

— Adrienne Rich

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a…

— Elizabeth Bowen

We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line…

— Kent Nerburn

at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms,…

— Margaret Atwood

“And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another's arms, and dream…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley