“I shall say that, if you save the letters of your youth, you will be able to “sing a yearning.” It seems that our sailors give this name to songs about the land that are sung only at sea. It would be hard to find a more poetic expression of nostalgia.”
—Machado de Assis, Epitaph of a Small Winner (1881).
(Source: theshipthatflew, via mythologyofblue)