"What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit."
— John Updike

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one."
— Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)

"That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now."
— Virginia Woolf