memoryslandscape: “You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the...

memoryslandscape:

“You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”

— For Vladimir Nabokov’s birthday, his impossibly beautiful love letters to Véra, the love of his life, Letters to Véra (Penguin Classics, 2016)