[tove jansson em moominland midwinter] "now come spring, but not at all as he had imagined its coming. he had thought that it would deliver him from a strange and hostile world, but now it was simply a continuation of his new experiences, of something he had already conquered and made his own"

[edith wharton em summer] "she was blind and insensible to many things, and dimly knew it; but to all that was light and air, perfume and colour, every drop of blood in her responded. she loved the roughness of the dry mountain grass under her palms, the smell of the thyme into which she crushed her face, the fingering of the wind in her hair and through her cotton blouse, and the creak of the larches as they swayed to it"

[rainer maria rilke em the book of hours / and you inherit the green of vanished gardens] and you inherit the green / of vanished gardens / and the motionless blue of fallen skies, / dew of a thousand dawns, countless summers / the suns sang, and springtime to break your heart / like a young woman's letters

[mary oliver na introdução de long life] "poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. but, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. and that is just the point: how the world, moist and bountiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. that's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. 'here you are, alive. would you like to make a comment?'"

[rainer maria rilke em the book of images / girl's melancholy] a young knight comes to mind / riding far in the full armor. / his smile was so soft and fine: / like gleaming on old ivory, / like homesickness, like a christmas snowfall / in the dark village, like turquoise / around which pearls are fashioned, / like moonlight / on a favorite book.

[tove jansson em fair play] "'before i go to sleep," mari said, 'you know, i think more about a film you've shown me than i do about all my worries, i mean all the things i've got to do and all the dumb things i've ever done... it's sort of like your movies freed me form myself. i mean, of course it's still me, but i'm not my own responsibility'"