My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep. – Player King, Hamlet

My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep. – Player King, Hamlet
…We just sit tight while wind dives / And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. / We are bombarded with the empty air. / Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. – Seamus Heaney, ‘Storm on the Island‘
I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. – Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen. – Winnie the Pooh
To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower – William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence‘
I’d love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well. – Hugh Bonneville