On [:] Stop chasing Christmas | Zona Gale, 1912
Horace Pippin, Christmas Morning Breakfast, 1945 . "I donno," said Mary, thoughtfully, "but what, when folks stop chasing after Christmas...
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On [:] Nightingale | Sappho, 630 – 570 BC
Utagawa Hiroshige, Camellia and Nightingale, 1797-1858 . “Nightingale, All you sing Is desire;” Sappho (630 – 570 BC) from Come...
On [:] A word | Charles Péguy, 1873-1914
Amélie Fontaine - Le cambrioleur . “A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears...
On [:] Perversion | Roland Barthes, 1977
Anemone hupehensis Praecox . “Perversion, quite simply, makes happy, or to be more specific, it produces a more: I am...
On [:] Hearing | Evelyn Glennie
Marion Collier (née Huxley) by John Collier, 1883 (detail) . "Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it...
On [:] Isolation | Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935
Henrik Samuelsson (Swedish, b. 1960), Ashes, 2016 . “Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can...
On [:] Lies | Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
Josephine Pollard and F. Schuyler Mathews , Plays and games for little folks, 1889 . “Invisible threads are the strongest...
On [:] A pebble | Nâzım Hikmet, 1902-63
Handmade Slingshot . "At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on...
On [:] Forget | Varlam Shalamov, 1907-1982
Jules-René Lalique, Poppy pin, 1897 . “A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to...
On [:] Comet | Tove Jansson, 1946
Tove Jansson, Set design sketch for the "Comet in Moominland '' play, 1949 . “The star we're looking for isn't...