Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. Vladimir Nabokov #booksky #author #quote Sophia Loeb #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

be softer with you. you are a breathing thing. a memory to someone. a home to a life. Nayyirah Waheed #booksky #poetry #quotes Michele Fletcher #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

He questioned softly why I failed? “For beauty,” I replied. “And I for truth,—the two are one; We brethren are,” he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips -Emily Dickinson #booksky #poetry Mary Ramsden #art #artist #contemporaryart

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

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself. Keats #booksky #quote #poetry Iris Yehong Mao #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. Zora Neale Hurston #booksky #author #quote Katherine Bradford #art #contemporaryart #painting #artist

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off. Anne Sexton #poet #booksky #poetry Patricia Iglesias Peco #art #artist #abstractart #contemporaryart #painting

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 Birgit Fechner #art #contemporaryart #painting #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

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 Albert Oehlen #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. Vladimir Nabokov #booksky #author #writing Danijela Knezevic #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. Simone de Beauvoir #booksky #quote #author #feminism Sam Francis #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting

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

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin #booksky #quotes #author Kevin Yaun #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. —Gwendolyn Brooks #author #quotes #booksky Tijana Titin #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Sometimes when people fall they fall like love Into and out of Head and heels and such Other times they fall like prey or victim to knees from grace -Andru Defeye #booksky #books #poetry Yuliya Martynova #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

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 Samantha Groff #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Joan Didion #author #booksky #quote Cy Gavin #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #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 Bob Thompson #art #artist #painter #oilpainting

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 Lotte Wieringa #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

And all that remains for me is to follow a violet darkness on soil where myths splinter and crack. Yes, love was time, and it too splintered and cracked like the face of our country. -Najwan Darwish #poetry #booksky #quotes Elenora Rinaldi #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Percy B. Shelley #booksky #poem #quote Flora Yukhnovich #art #artist #painter #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart #rococo

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily remembrance of things as they were. Marcel Proust #boosky #author #quote Lauren Quinn #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Though my soul may set in darkness, it shall rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Sylvia Plath #poetry #booksky #quotes Hermann Nitsch #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #acrylicpainting

Criselda Vasquez : The New American Gothic, 2017 Oil on canvas | 72 x 48 in

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson #poem #booksky #author #poet Kylie Manning #art #arist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. Rumi #poetry #quotes #booksky Sophia Loeb #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

Much is born in nests Which none will see in a dream, And you’ll miss How winged things turn into ghosts when re-told Like they had never been. Anna Glazova #booksky #poetry #translation #quote Mandy Racine #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

God, give us a long winter and quiet music, and patient mouths, and a little pride––before our age ends. Give us astonishment and a flame, high, bright. Adam Zagajewski #booksky #poetry #quote John Bingley Garland #art #artist #collage #Victorian

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

Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. —Raymond Carver #booksky #poetry #quotes Mary Ketch #painting #art #artist #oilpainting #contemporaryart

Sometimes it seems my sight's turned in on a place dark green and undefiled and I am as old as the young will ever be. No, I mean wild! -Fanny Howe #booksky #poetry #quotes Tessa Greene O'Brien #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. Lorraine Hansberry #booksky #quotes David Hockney #art #artist #painter #contemporaryart #ipad #digitalart

In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams; A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust That will drink deeply of a century's streams; These lilies shall make summer on my dust. Muriel Stuart #booksky #poetry #quotes Michele Fletcher #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. […] It could mean something. It could mean everything. It could be what Rilke meant when he wrote: You must change your life. Mary Oliver #booksky #poetry Alice Baber #art #artist #painting

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. Joy Harjo #booksky #poetry #indigenouspeoplesday Michael Armitage #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

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

Olaf Hajek, Let’s Pretend It’s Not The End Of The World (illustration for The Winged Moon Magazine: Biophilia, 2025)

When I slip beneath the quilt and fold into your warmth, I think we are like the pages of a love letter written thirty years ago that some aging god still reads each day and then tucks back into its envelope. Ellen Bass #booksky #poetry #quotes Stefan Stoikov #art #artist #painting #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 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