Constance TW

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.”
― Dion Fortune, Principles of Esoteric Healing

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James

“We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor.”
― Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea