Remember that hotel that had a little house full of coffee and tea, a little kettle, mugs and sugar? We recently went back for a weekend and they still have them – very silly, very cute, very joyful
sing, muse, of the king of oil drums and automobiles; sing of his wife in the arms of the sun; sing of summertime on the road to hell, of lovers that take each other by the hand, and dance underneath the sky.
"It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? "
📍 Yaddo, New York
(Yaddo is a prestigious writing school located outside of New York City who taught individuals such as Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, and Dorothy Parker).