On [:] Necessity | Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
Eugène Delacroix, Orphan girl at the cemetery,1823-1824 "The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness...
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On [:] Prevent | Anne Bryan Smollin, 1943-2014
Itou Shinsui, Fine Weather in Autumn, 1930 “A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying...
On [:] Great Days | Donald Barthelme, 1979
Charles Blackman, Girl in a Doorway —What do the children say?—There's a thing the children say.—What do the children say?—They...
On [:] Locked | Virginia Woolf, 1929
Paul Delvaux, L'Incendie, 1935 “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; andI thought how it is worse,...
On [:] Slink | Baltasar Gracian, 1647
Lois Dodd, Front Door Cushing, 1982 “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for otherand greater ones invariably slink...
On [:] Consolation | Kate Forster
Henri Rousseau, Exotic Landscape, 1908 "I think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators,...
On [:] Sleep | Franz Kafka, 1920-23
Francesc Rovira “Sleep is the most innocent creature there isand a sleepless man the most guilty.” Franz Kafka, Letters to...
On [:] Berries | Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Karin Kneffel, Blackberries, 1994 "In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees,...
On [:] Shock | Niki de Saint Phalle, 1930-2002
Niki de Saint Phalle, Maquette for Le dragon de Knokke, c. 1973 "There is nothing more shocking than joy.” Niki...
On [:] Help | Freida McFadden, 2024
Hye Jin Chung, Ice Cream “You know things are seriously bad wheneven ice cream doesn’t help.” Freida McFadden, The Teacher,...