— Zadie Smith, from her foreword to Feel Free: Essays

“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, from his Nobel prize acceptance speech

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

Hozier during the Dublin Academy shows literally exists

I know right! The evidence is all there!

Another picture to show that men are pretty with Hozier as proof from @romagirl

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm.

wouldn't you know

how it was uttered a million times

in your life;

while in mine, at 02:39

rolled an indelible yclepe

and more strings

with an utterly, utterly

new beginnings

wouldn't you believe

what an injustice

for these verses are

and ever be

bare, ought to be breathy sighs

as a muttered incantation

makes the soil and hovering skies

crush me in the middle

holding blue, catching drops

like a Roman pantomime

to your song, darling

down to the ground, I

rolled like a tongue