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 Harriet Gillet #art #artist #painting

Funny thing about grief, its hold is so bright and determined like a flame, like something almost worth living for. Ada Limon #booksky #quote #poetry Cai Guo-Qiang #art #artist #gunpowder #fire #contemporaryart #fireworks

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. W.S. Merwin #booksky #quote #poetry Todd Clark #art #artist #painting #mixedmedia #contemporaryart

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 Lilia Orlova-Holmes #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 Heath Wae #art #artist #painting #painter #contemporaryart

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold Sara Teasdale #booksky #poetry #quotes #poet Thomas Nozkowski #art #artist #painter #painting #contemporaryart

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin #booksky #prose #quote Claire Tabouret #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem there is no perfect ending. Indeed, there are infinite endings. Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings. Louise Gluck #booksky #poetry #quotes Art: Jules de Balincourt #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Four of the roses were on fire. They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets and howling colossal intimacies from the back of their fused throats. Anne Carson #booksky #quotes #AutobiographyofRed #poetry Lois Valtat #art #artist #painting #modernart #oilpainting

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda #booky #poetry #poet #quote Tuan Vu #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. Toni Morrison #booksky -Rae Klein #art

once in a while the odd thing happens, Once in a while the dream comes true, And the whole pattern of life is altered, Once in a while the moon turns blue W.H. Auden #booksky #poetry #quotes Art by: Dairo Vargas #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you […] The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours – And the songs of every poet past and forever. Rabindranath Tagore #poetry #quote #booksky Art by: Alice Barber #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #watercolor

I like being with you all night with closed eyes. […] I did a road trip all over my mind and heart and there you were kneeling by the roadside with your little toolkit fixing something. Give me a world, you have taken the world I was. Anne Carson #booksky Art by: Michele Fletcher #art #painting

What weighs more— pound of feathers or the memory of thinking you might fly? -Andrea Cohen #booksky #quotes #poetry Art by: Ellina Kevorkian #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

let us not be scared of the work because it's hard let us move the mountain because the mountain must move Danez Smith #boosky #poetry #quote Art: Tessa Greene O'Brien #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Wakened by the scent of flowering plum. ... The darkness of the spring night fills me with longing. Izumi Shikibu #booksky #quote #poetry Birgit Fechner #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Burden and blessing— two blossoms on the same branch. To be so lost in this radiant wilderness. Gregory Orr #booksky #poetry #poem Art: Albert Oehlen #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

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

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez #booksky Art by: Stuart McHarrie #art #artist #painting

Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart. Cameron Awkward-Rich #booksky #poetry #quote Artist: Colin Brant #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Joan Didion #booksky #author #quotes Art by: Marian Spore Bush #art #artist #oilpainting

It is a beautiful impulse to contain the infinite in the finite, to rest order from the chaos, to construct a foothold so we may climb towards higher truth. Maria Popova #booksky #author #biography Art by: Gideon Appah #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Tennyson #booksky #poetry #quote Art by: Iris Yehong Mao #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting

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: Fernanda Galvão #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #pastel

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. -Allen Ginsberg #booksky #poetry #quote Art by: František Kupka #art #artist #abstractart #painting #oilpainting

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak sh*t anyone can throw at us. Anne Lamott #author #booksky #writing Art by: Xiyao Wang #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

Find what you love and let it kill you. Charles Bukowski #boosky #author #poetry #poem Egon Schiele #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #modernart #expressionism

“So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.” Mary Oliver #booksky #poetry #poem #quote Art by: Colleen Herman #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within James Baldwin #boosky #quote #author Art by: Danielle McKinney #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #portrait

We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. Joan Didion #booksky #quote Art by: Rachel Lancaster #art #artist #painting #oilpainting

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. John Steinbeck #booksky #quotes #author Alice Baber #art #artist #modernart #abstractart #painting #watercolor

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

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks #booksky #quote #author Art by: Cy Gavin #art #artist #painting #contenporaryart

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez #booksky #quote Art by: Michele Fletcher #art #artist #painting

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. —Confucius #booksky #author #quote Art by: Hung Fai #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #traditionalchinesepainting

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Garbriel Garcia Marquez #boosky #author #quotes Georg Baselitz #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle. Rumi #booksky #author #quote Riga Forbes #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Socrates #booksky #stoicism #author #quote Sam Francis #art #artist #modernart #painting #abstractart

I am large, I contain multitudes Walt Whitman #booksky #quotes #poetry Dairo Vargas #art #artsky #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

O these tedious, tedious attempts to learn the universe by thought alone. Margaret Fuller #booksky #author #quotes Karel Appel #art #artist #painting #modernart #Guggenheim

In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours. Izumi Shikibu #boosky #poetry #author #quote Francesco Clemente #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #Guggenheim

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest. Goethe #booksky Vanessa Bell #art #artist #painting

All beauties, whether in nature or art, whether in physics or morals, whether in composition or abstract reasoning, are multiplied reflections, visible in different distances and under different positions, of one archetypal beauty. Elizabeth Barrett Browning #booksky Jan Sluyters #art #artist

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! Thomas Mann #booksky #quote #author Nigel Cooke #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. Oscar Wilde #booksky #quote Alejandro Piñeiro Bello #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away. Rainer Maria Rilke #boosky #quote #poetry Gideon Appah #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #pacegallery

Gustav Klimt : Garden Path with Hens, 1916

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 Lynne Drexler #art #artist #modernart #oilpainting