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She breathes life into the earth, the earth kisses the soles of her feet. 'I would be nothing without you.' the wind sings. '...And I you.'

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"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." — Franz Kafka

#Qs

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#paintings

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Let us desire The nothing of night

Arthur Rimbaud, from Eternity (tr. by Paul Schmidt)

#Qs

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"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear." — Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

#paintings #Qs

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T.S. Eliot, from “East Coker”, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

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Oil painting by Daniel Gerhartz

#Oil Paintings #Paintings #fav

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on being unable to say it

emma, jane austen 

“self-portrait at 28,” david berman

“figure it out,” orla gartland, art by @oozins​

red doc>, anne carson

“how to draw a horse,” emma hunsinger

“the crane wife,” cj hauser

“the torn-up road,” richard siken

#Qs #Quote Collage

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Charles Amable Lenoir - The Death of Sappho (1896)

#sappho #paintings emphasis on pain

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II The Muses have filled my life With delight. And when I die I shall not be forgotten.

III

And I say to you someone will remember us In time to come…

— Sappho, tr. by A.S. Kline, from Fragments, on the Muses; Sappho: Selected Poems and Fragments.

#Qs #Sappho

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Miguel Carbonell Selva, Death of Sappho, 1881

#paintings emphasis on pain

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anyway, richard siken

#Richard Siken #Qs