"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it.
I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” Maurice Sendak
𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐝. __Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. ~Leo Tolstoy
@pmvines this one is for you.
The Lady Of Shalott~John William Waterhouse ❤️
And down the river’s dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his own mischance – With glassy countenance Did she look to Camelot. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shalott.
John William Waterhouse based his 1888 painting, on the lines from part IV of Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ It is one of Waterhouse's most famous and recognised works.
Tennyson’s poem, first published in 1832, tells of a woman who suffers from an undisclosed curse. She lives isolated in a tower on an island called Shalott, on a river which flows down from King Arthur’s castle at Camelot.
She is allowed to see the outside world, only through its reflection in a mirror.
One day she glimpses the reflected image of the handsome knight Lancelot, and cannot resist looking at him directly.
The mirror cracks from side to side, and she feels the curse come upon her.
The punishment that follows results in her drifting in her boat downstream to Camelot, but dying before she reaches there.
Waterhouse's painting shows her letting go of the boat’s chain, while staring at a crucifix placed in front of three guttering candles.
The Lady of Shalott is one of the original paintings from the gift of Sir Henry Tate in 1894, to the public. She currently hangs in The Tate, London.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/waterhouse-the-lady-of-shalott-n01543
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.” Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo - Xochimilco,Mexico City (1936).