Puella Sole

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats