#academia quotes

[luciferslilith7]

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Virginia Woolf

Selected Letters

[akaessi]

hills through train windows

[chillpotato]

- Margaux I Paul

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"she might have been some fabled creature whose home was in a beam of light."

~ Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (1913)

[ethereal-muses]

We have art in order not to die from the truth.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

[greeksblog]

I open my fingers-

I let everything go.

[joytri]

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night"

Sarah Williams

[edwardian-masquerade]

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[averyblackbooks]

[the-reverii]

[luciferslilith7]

"You return like Autumn, and I fall everytime."

Faraway

[whereshadowslive]

"What of art?" she asked.

"It is a malady."

"Love?"

"An illusion."

"Religion?"

"The fashionable substitute for belief."

"You are a sceptic."

"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."

"What are you?"

"To define is to limit."

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[chillpotato]

- Mary Oliver

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Saturday, November 15th, 1919

"& so here I am, sitting after Saturday tea, a large warm meal, full of currants & sugar & hot tea cake, after a long cold walk."

~ Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 1 (1915-1919), ed. Anne Olivier Bell

[akaessi]

as someone who is both in academia and has an "academia aesthetic" blog, i do think it's worth discussing how restrictive and hostile academia is for many people, truly beyond the aesthetic.

academia is presented as this space where intellect and progressive thought is welcome and encouraged, which it certainly is, but only in the "correct" manner, by the "correct people," etc.

at the end of the day, there's still a professor insulting me for daring to correct him on his antisemitic terminology in class. there is still a classroom where me and my friend are the only two non-christians present in a discussion about whether or not christianization was violent.

there are so many people who face these situations and worse. (i'm privileged as an able-bodied white jewish woman in the academic sphere!)

there is an entire world of academia beyond the aesthetic and it's hostile. there are so many institutional and social barriers preventing people from accessing academia. and there are so many instances of cloistered departments that are at least 15 years behind in progress and thought.

I don't know. that's just my short ramble with no conclusion.

[ethereal-muses]

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

– Edgar Allen Poe