I used to do this, the self I was used to do this the selves I no longer am nor understand. {…} about loving someone then walk away, coolly I’m not ashamed Love is large and monstrous Maggie Nelson #booksky #poetry #quotes Colleen Herman #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #artist

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we’ll never get used to it. —Richard Siken #poetry #booksky #quote Radu Baies #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. Arthur Rimbaud #booksky #poetry #quotes Alia Ahmad #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

Americans should know the universe as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls Walt Whitman #booksky #quote #poetry John McAllister #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing I do. Haruki Murakami #booksky #quotes #author Erica Mahinay #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. Bertolt Brecht #booksky #quote #poetry #writing Michael McGrath #art #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting #acrylicpainting

We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of isolated instants So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. John Ashbery #boosky #quotes #poetry Tessa Greene O’Brien #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

believe us, they say, it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. -Mary Oliver #poem #poetry #booksky Fumiya Odagawa #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #acrylicpainting

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Kahlil Gibran #poetry #booksky Art: Yeon Kyung Park #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. Rumi #poetry #booksky Sylvia Snowden #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

You say you see my mouth, ears, eyes, nose, they are not mine I am the life of life I am that cat, this stone, no one I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag {…} This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God. Rumí #poetry #booksky Lilia Orlova-Holmes #art #painting #contemporaryart

If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #booksky #TheLittlePrince #quote #author Emilio Perez #art #artist #modernart #oilpainting

The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world. -Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry #quotes -Colin Brant #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings. Mary Oliver #booksky #quotes #poetry Lynne Drexler #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald #booksky #author #quote #TheGreatGatsby Ivan Terestchenko #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ Sylvia Plath #booksky #author #quote Art by: Stefan Stoikov #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle. Rumi #booksky #author #quote Helen Lundeberg #art #artist #painting #oilpainting

We ran all night. Took to threatening the moon. That was when I taped it all together, everything even my mouth to yours. Robert Wood Lynn #booksky #poetry #author #poem Radu Baeis #art #artist #painting #oilpaint #contemporaryart

Every ploughed field, every row of trees. Every square church tower in the distance. Every minute of sunshine, every shadow. Every wisp of cloud in the wide, blue, East Anglian sky. Every day. Every day that's left. Wendy Cope #booksky #poetry #poem Karen Kilimnik #artist #painting #oilpaint

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. Carol Ann Duffy #poetry #author #quote #booksky Alvaro Barrington #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged. Marguerite Duras #booksky #poem Shirazeh Houshiary #art #artist

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. {…} At present you need to live the question. Rainer Maria Rilke #booksky #quotes Colleen Herman #art #artist #painting #oilpaint

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in. Ernest Hemingway #quote #booksky #author Sonia Delaunay #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #illustration #painting #artist

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. Toni Morrison #booksky #quote #writing France-Lise McGurn #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. WB Yeats #poetry #quote #writing #author #booksky Sophia Lowb #art #contemporaryart #artist #oilpainting

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda #poetry #booksky #valentinesday Jess Allen #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

She had horses who danced in their mothers' arms. She had horses who thought they were the sun and their bodies shone and burned like stars. She had horses who waltzed nightly on the moon. She had some horses. Joy Harjo #poetry #booksky #poem #quotes Agnes Pelton #art #artist #painting #oilpainting

Don’t move. I like this ledge of loose diamonds waiting to be spilled into the night. Let’s shine awhile without touching. Sensuality is, after all, a river that is always waiting. Tess Gallagher #author #booksky #quotes #witing Gaspard Girard d’Albissin #art #artist #painting #oilpainting

If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. Seamus Heaney #booksky #quote #poetry Tunji Adeniyi-Jones #art #artist #painter #oilpainting

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Rainer Maria Rilke #booksky #quote #poetry Birgit Fechner #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpaint

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi #booksky #poetry #quote #poem Sasha Gordon #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from. Joan Didion #booksky #quotes #author Christine Ay Tjoe #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. Daphne du Maurier #booksky #quotes Tarwuk #art #artist #painting #painter #contemporaryart

Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive […] I don’t care where it’s been, or what bitter road it’s traveled to come so far, to taste so good. Stephen Dunn #booksky #poetry #quotes Rae Klein #art #artist #painting

My God, I just remembered that we die. But — but me too?! Don't forget that for now, it's strawberry season. Clarice Lispector #booksky #quotes Sei Shibusawa #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

And never to forget beauty, however strange or difficult. Reginald Shepherd #booksky #quote #poetry Art: Yeon Kyung Park #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville #booksky #author Heli Hiltunen #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

So what can we really do for each other except--just love each other and be each other's witness? James Baldwin #booksky #quotes Anna Ruth #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. Ellen Bass #poetry #booksky #quotes #poem Alia Ahmad #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

You hold the truth. Had a cigarette. Slept with someone inadvisable. Cried in public. They evicted you from the altar of piety. The world is yours. Harriet Selina #booksky #poetry #quotes Emmi Whitehorse #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing I do. Haruki Murakami #booksky #quotes #author Erica Mahinay #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we’ll never get used to it. —Richard Siken #poetry #booksky #quote Naudline Pierre #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson #booksky #poetry #quotes Tuan Vu #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde #booksky #quote Cathleen Clarke #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #artist

I am not cruel, just truthful — The eye of a little god, four cornered. Sylvia Plath #booksky #poetry Aisha Christison #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

We ran all night. Took to threatening the moon. That was when I taped it all together, everything even my mouth to yours. Robert Wood Lynn #booksky #poetry #author #poem Ilona Koroman #art #artist #painting #oilpaint #contemporaryart

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy… Shakespeare #sonnet #poem #booksky #morning Clara Gesang-Gottowt #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius #booksky #author #quote Art by: Laura Footes #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ Sylvia Plath #booksky #author #quote Art by: Michael Armitage #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost #booksky #quotes #poetry Art by: Heath Wae #art #artist #abstractart #painting