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Atlas

Was it worth

Knees buckling

Sweat Blinding

Constant weight of earth?

Battle gravity

for love,

for pride,

Or stubborn naïveté?

challenge the inevitable

For sake of-

In spite of-

Humanity.

2024 Elena Vlachos

#gravity #atlas #poetry #sketch #heavy #love

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whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

LizzieOrmian.redbubble.com

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“With the right music, you either forget everything or you remember everything.”

— Unknown

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Golfe Juan (1896, oil on canvas) | Paul Signac

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Paul Signac - The Port at La Rochelle (1921)

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richard siken’s new poem in the new yorker—at the link, you can hear him read it in full

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Raoul Dufy: O estudio do artista (1935)

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via radiantsomatics

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j. sullivan

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Paris

Raoul Dufy 1877-1953

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Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953), Mozart. Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm.

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Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

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Le Port au soleil couchant, Opus 236 by Paul Signac

(1892, oil on canvas)

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Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:

1. There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality... Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.

2. Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.

3. Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.

4. Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.

5. Wit and Play..for the human element.

6. The ephemeral and chance...for the human element.

7. Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

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Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953) • Nature Morte • 1928 • Watercolor on paper