Oscar Wilde and I

A Collection of Loveliness.

“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”

—   Claude Monet 

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Songs of the MorningHenrietta Rae

“I would that the cool waves might flow over my mind,
And that the world should dry as a dead leaf,
Or as a dandelion seed-pod and be swept away…”

—   Ezra Pound
The letter I left for Oscar at his grave when I recently visited Paris.
The top of the envelope reads:

To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head,and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. 
—a passage from “The Canterville Ghost”

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God. I am a lantern—

My head a moon
Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.

—   Sylvia Plath

“I sometimes think we are all mentally disabled, in a way, but there are these structures in life that keep us in line…just look at children playing alone in their rooms, and the vastness of sounds and characters. They create all these beautiful things with their imagination, and we all have that, it is still in us.”

—   Sufjan Stevens

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