Episode 128: “The Enchanted April” by Elizabeth von Arnim, Ch. 1-11
Whoso maintains that I am humbled now
(Who await the Awful Day) is still a liar;
I hope to meet my Maker brow to brow
And find my own is higher.
Frances Cornford, “Epitaph for a Book Reviewer”“(The) sufferer is by definition a customer.”
Wendell Berry, from The Art of the CommonplaceBeauty will save the world.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sonnet 98by William Shakespeare
From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer’s story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight Drawn after you, – you pattern of all those. Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. Book List:The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
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