Culture Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Look through the unfinished entrance facade, note blue sky where the stained-glass windows would have been, and ponder the struggles, triumphs, and failures of…

— Rick Steves

“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to…

— Tahereh Mafi

“A very civilized thing, glass—almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.”

— John Derbyshire

“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Have you prepared a candlelit table for dinner in a forest where twilight reigns? Some may call this dazzling table, elegantly lit, a fantasy…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your mother goes to the public library, which has been down on its luck for a long time, like most things around here. Last…

— Marilynne Robinson

“It cast a pale, silvery sheen across the landscape, limning the hard edges of the buildings in cold light.”

— Anna Carven

“Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love…

— Danielle Evans

“Pine trees are not like human beings, they go for a long time without altering...”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“My Templeton is to Cooperstown as a shadow is to the tree that spawned it; an outline that takes texture from the ground it…

— Lauren Groff

“On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates...This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into…

— Margaret Atwood

“My woods...the young fir balsams like a place Where houses all are churches and have spires.”

— Robert Frost