“She was trying, as do all the nostalgic, for the magic of strange garments which transform the spirit at the same time as the body, and thus revive for an hour the grace of a vanished era. I loved her for reviving the sacred fires of ruined temples and wreathing broken statues with roses.”
— Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,”
