Literature

A journal of the lines that stay with me: Goethe and Borges, Rulfo and Martel, the whole of Buesa’s Poema del olvido read against three paintings by Winslow Homer. It began on X and it keeps going here, arranged by the voice that wrote each line.

So live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day when God deigns to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope!

This chapter is my favorite chapter of The Little Prince and its numbering coincides with my favorite number. It is a beautiful text that explains what is friendship and love, the rites and the deep meaning of taming.