Will Harrison
Will Harrison
tired rome wish
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
air fire islands
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
insanity proportion
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
inanimate-objects objects
there are no inanimate objects ...
illness crime
illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...
add generations wheels
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
dream romance quality
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
pain grief heart
Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.
travel home coming-home
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to ...
mean feelings facts
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...
evil faces dubious
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
regret home hands
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
fun serious moments
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
way pitfalls danger
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.