Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being

Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the worlds broken fragments into a harmonious whole.

How should we like it were stars to burn with a passion for us we could not return? asked W.H. Auden in one of the greatest poems ever written a subtle, playful, poignant meditation on what it takes to go on living to go on making poems and symphonies and equations, to go on loving when faced with something so much vaster than we...