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

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 Aisha Christison #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. Gabriel Garcia Marquez #booksky #quote #author Tijuana Titin #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. Vladimir Nabokov #booksky #author #quote Agnes Pelton #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #abstractart #artist

Dabin Ahn, “Home” (2025), oil on linen in artist’s frame, 18 x 13 inches www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/dabi...

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

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

Art is the mirror of our betrayed ideals. Doris Lessing #booksky #quote #author Eleonora Rinaldi #art #contemporaryart #painting #artist

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

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

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 David Hockney #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #digitalart

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

I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of two evils […] a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office […] sexually harrassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. Zoe Leonard #poetry #booksky Jasper Johns #art

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 Lilly Fenichel #art #artist #painting #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 Jonathan Schofield #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

If there is something to recall, there was nothing to regret. If there was nothing to regret, there was nothing to desire. Vera Pavlova #booksky #poetry Aisha Christison #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. Le Guin #booksky #author #quote Ksenia Sandesko #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off. Anne Sexton #poet #booksky #poem Anna Koruth #art #artist #abstractart #contemporaryart #painting

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

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 Tiana Titin #artist #painting #oilpaint

I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies stranded here beneath it. Buddy Wakefield #boosky #poetry #quotes Agnes Pelton #art #abstractart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting

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 Sei Shibusawa #art #painting #contemporaryart #artist

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 Patricia Iglesias Peco #painting #art #artist #60s #oilpainting

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. Toni Morrison #booksky #quote #writing Dairo Vargas #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting

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 Sei Shibusawa #artist #art #contemporaryart #painting #ink

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: Veronika Blyzniuchenko #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #goldleaf

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. Le Guin #booksky #author #quote Jan Preisler #art #artist #oilpainting #painting #symbolism

To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but... If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? Gregory Orr #booksky #poem #poetry #quote Rae Klein #art #artist #oilpainting #painting #contemporaryart

Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, there is a crack, a crack in everything that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen #booksky #quote #lyrics #poetry Monika Marchewka #art #artist #contemporsryart #painter #painting #oilpaint

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: Stephan Stoikov #art #artist #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: Madge Gill #art #artist #contemporaryart #fineline #drawing

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 Jessica Brilli #art #artist #contemporaryart

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Dostoyevsky #booksky #author #quote Erica Mahinay #art #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #artist

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 Francisco Goya #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #blackpaintings

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

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 Karen Kilimnik #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #acrylicpainting

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. William Faulkner #booksky #quotes Lilly Fenichel #oilpainting #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart

How should we like it were stars to burn with a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me. -W.H. Auden #quote #booksky #poetry Sean Cairns #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting

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 Heath Wae #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. William Wordsworth #poetry #spring #booksky #author Lynne Drexler #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. Alexandre Dumas #author #booksky #quote Eleonora Rinaldi #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting

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 Caroline Walker #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpaint

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

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

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. John Steinbeck #booksky #quotes #author Tessa Greene O’Brien @tessagreeneobrien.bsky.social #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting

I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies stranded here beneath it. Buddy Wakefield #boosky #poetry #quotes Hannah Hoch #art #artist #dada #collage #montage

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