Emily Dickinson on Life

"Life is a haunted house... art is a house that tries to be haunted."

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."

Mock not the Sun God!

Remember my battle with Apollo, the Sun God? Yeah, well, it took place yesterday and it's hard to say who came out better. I am fully sunburned, roasting hot flamingo pink, skin like the glowing coals of a nighttime fire. Sitting in an ice cold bath, my own arctic ocean sounds like the loveliest thing ever, yet some perverse, masochistic tendency is presenting a good case for going back to the beach. What is wrong with me?!