“Some pretty little girl in a bonnet that inspires a Shakespearean sonnet. Better yet, a woman’s choice of millinery to walk a fashion show off fritillary. To church or same gandiose Easter parade that gleams […]
“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked past it […]
“Orange is the happiest color.” ~ Frank Sinatra
“Our life is made by the death of others.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
“Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.” ~ Confuci
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.” ~Langston Hughes
“There is a kind of cult around Fritillaria meleagris—the snake’s head fritillary—to do with its looks and its name and the fact that the kind of garden in which it thrives is not necessarily the […]
