“Sappho has become for us a name, an abstraction as well as a pseudonym for poignant human feeling.”

Reflecting on how a poet can become an enduring embodiment of human emotion · Essay, The Wise Sappho

• Emotion
• Influence
• Poetry

“But the world of the great creative artists is never dead.”

Affirming the continuing vitality of genuinely creative art · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Art
• Creativity
• Eternity

“The years were immaterial. He liked my light summer dresses. Ezra was not consciously a love-image. But he lurked there, hid there, under the years.”

Reflecting on how an early attachment can remain hidden beneath decades of later experience · Memoir, End to Torment

• Love
• Memory
• Time