Myth/Nature

“A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived."”

Tolstoy 

Bradford, PA

Poisonous love

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools”

Katherine Mansfield

Rixford, Pa 

Old and Worn

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”

 Victor Hugo

Bradford, PA

Windows

"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the
cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh
air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own."
Bertrand Russell
Henry Mercer Castle, Doylestown Pa

Fantasy

“Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For reason, much too strong for fantasy, / Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet / My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.”

John Donne

Henry Mercer Museum,Doylestown, PA