Alexander Blok, from The Selected Poems of Alexander Blok; “I Leave the Tiresome Noise and Clamor,”
““The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.””
— - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (via katiesclassicbooks)
“Her face radiated something of the last century’s romantic glow,”
— Sándor Márai, tr. by George Szirtes, from “Esther’s Inheritance,” c. 1939
