“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
—Dead Poet Society (via coffee-tea-and-sympathy)
June 2011
Amaranth
Nightwish
Amaranth - Nightwish
The Voice
Celtic Woman
Celtic Woman - The Voice
“I don’t want to be a simile anymore,” I said. “I want to be a metaphor”.”
—China Mieville, ‘Embassytown’. (via thedailyclick)
“I think if I have any particular hope it’s this: that we all should simply be artists and just write books and stop pretending that there is such a thing as being able to sit down and write a book for a child: it is quite impossible. One simply writes books.”
—Maurice Sendak (via libraryland)
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
—Albert Einstein (via vinh) (via freckledawesome) (via libraryland, vinh) (via rafialkiewicz)
A Trick of the Sea (Piano Magic Cover)
Klima
Klima / ‘A Trick of the Sea’ (Piano Magic cover)
You, waking up from a dream of the sea, safe in the harbour from sailors like me
