Porous = having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass.
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Art by Vladimir Kush.
Eccentric = unconventional and slightly strange.
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell
Art by Michael Cheval.
Lurk = to wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen.
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
–Ray Bradbury
Art by Anton Pieck.
Foretell = to tell beforehand, to predict.
“The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods.”
– H. P. Lovecraft
Art by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
Exhilarated = make (someone) feel very happy, animated, or elated.
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Art by Charles Courtney Curran.
Horned = crescent-shaped (literary); furnished with a horn or horns.
“Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.” – Gerard De Nerval
Art by Rob Gonsalves.
Stitch = one in-and-out movement of a threaded needle in sewing, embroidering, or suturing.
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury
Art by Jacek Yerka.
Longing = a yearning desire.
“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.”
– John O’Donohue
Art by Ferdinand Knab.
Pierce = entering or cutting through with a sharp pointed instrument.
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
– Aldous Huxley
Art – Beauty and the Beast by John Dickson Batten.
Kindle = set on fire, arouse or inspire (an emotion or feeling).
“The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
– Carl Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961)
Art by Michel Rauscher.