“In her absence I created her image: out of the earthly the hidden heavenly commences.”— Mahmoud Darwish, poetryfoundation.org
“Ideas, images, or wishes rose up in me and pulled me away from the outside world, to the point where my relationship with these pictures inside me, these dreams and shadows, were truer and more vital than those I had with my true surroundings.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com