#romantic academia aesthetics

"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting ...

Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and starting to ...

Franz Kafka Rumi Haruki Murakami Theodore Dreiser Sigmund Freud Rudyard Kipling Henry Miller...

Just like Alan Ginsberg, I, too, don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision....

Franz Kafka...

Voltaire Mikhail Bulgakov Elizabeth Gaskell Alexandre Cabanel / Fallen Angel Allen Ginsberg Gaston Leroux ...

Leo Tolstoy Edgar Allan Poe Kahlil Gibran Charles Baudelaire Rainer Maria Rilke Donna Tartt Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Franz Kafka's desk I sat at my fine desk ... It's a respectably minded desk which is meant to educate. Where the writer's ...

Avijeet Das / Charlotte Brontë / Bill Bryson / I Origins / Carlo Rovelli / Carl Sagan...

EXULANSIS n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—...

When Franz Kafka said You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love, and Richard Jackson said ...

When I find myself in times of trouble Rainer Maria Rilke comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "You are not too old, and it ...

Are they destroying you or are you destroying yourself and they are not doing anything to save you?...