'Black Cabs and Buses, St. Martin's London' by Gerald Green panterandhall.com/collections/gerald-green/products/gerald-green-black-cabs-and-buses-st-martins-london

Καλημέρα σε όλους εκτός από φασίστες, ρατσιστές κλπ

mary ruefle was right when she said that people would rather read an essay about poetry than read a poem. it reminds me of when people in a museum read the explanatory caption before having their own experience of the art. you fear not "getting it" when you should fear not living

Für morgen ist ein Besuch im Buchladen geplant. Ich wünsche mir sehr, dass ich dort ein schönes Buch finde. 📚💚

#phoyography Aitor Arana Arruti. #Fotógrafo Narrativo. 1963 #retratos

„Das, was wir nicht sagen, gehört uns für immer. Schreiben heißt, mit dem Schweigen spielen, auf Umwegen Geheimnisse aussprechen, die im wahren Leben unaussprechlich sind.“ Leïla Slimani, Der Duft der Blumen bei Nacht

free spirits. © jo sharpe

Beautiful bijou LEONORA CARRINGTON exhibition (THE SYMPTOMATIC SURREAL) at London’s Freud Museum yesterday. Carrington’s drawings (sketched during the time she spent in a Spanish sanatorium) are ghostly and ethereal. DOWN BELOW (1940) is also on display - so haunting and surreal. #Art #ArtSky

📷 Under the spell of the long summer twilight... (Ode to Pictorialism) #pictorialism

„Mein gesamtes Dasein ist zerrissen zwischen dem Wunsch, in Ruhe in meinem Zimmer zu bleiben, und der Lust, mich zu amüsieren, immerzu, Menschen zu begegnen, mich zu vergessen.“ Leïla Slimani, Der Duft der Blumen bei Nacht

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? ~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) #Photography by Shinji Aratani.

Sculpture, "Hear: With an Ear to the Ground" by Polish-American artist Olga Ziemska #womensart

There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Stimmung gab’s natürlich auch heut Morgen 😊

Good night, friends. ⭐️ I am out with lanterns looking for myself. ~ Emily Dickinson

I could live without television, but not without books. – Viet Thanh Nguyen 🖼 Karoline Kroiß .

Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898-1983) "The Delicate Wings of a Dragonfly", 1933-1936 #photography #dragonfly #insect #HeinzHajek-Halke #HeinzHajekHalke

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, & forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. ~ F. Pessoa (1920) J. Playa #art

Damn, when you hear a cover of The Specials "Ghost Town" like this from @lankumdublin.bsky.social it hits pretty hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...

The Specials 🖤

Misty Morning, Dick Twinney.

'The Pink Bridge, Waterloo' (2026) by John Walsom walsom.art

“Writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, it is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.” ~ Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) #Sculpture, Jo Davidson, 1883–1952.

David Bowie in front of Tea & Sympathy, New York City, 10th January 1997, by Kevin Cummins.

Art’s “distance from the prerogatives of the powerful is precisely where its force of resistance lies.” —Zadie Smith

“A ribbon tied around a bomb” was the description of Frida Kahlo by Surrealist theorist André Breton.....

Jacques Guillet, Mont Saint Michel (vinyl, c. 2020)

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Figurine, female with flowers in skirt) (collage)

Kay Sage, The Great Impossible (1961)

🗓️ June 3 #calendarsong 🎶 It was the third of June/ Another sleepy, dusty Delta day #BobbieGentry open.spotify.com/track/4FdDor...

Händels Wassermusik und versunken bunte Tupfen aus Wasserfarben malen. Tut gut.

how we see and how we feel is who we are Stephen Spera

spellbound © gill bustamante

Agnes Treherne, Kiwi Plant, oil on birch panel, 2024

‘[Allen Ginsberg] once asked how I would describe how we met. "I would say you fed me when I was hungry," I told him.‘ Patti Smith, Just Kids

🚲 For #WorldBicycleDay, we're celebrating #DervlaMurphy, one of Ireland's most celebrated travel writers and adventurers. Best known for her 1965 classic 'Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle' she inspired generations of travellers + cyclists through her remarkable journeys around the world.

Happy Birthday: Rachel Ruysch was born on this day in 1664 in The Hague, Netherlands Rachel Ruysch, Posy of flowers, with insects and butterflies, on a marble ledge, 1690s, Fitzwilliam Museum #femalepainter #rachelruysch #flowerpainting #art

‘From the Water's Edge.’ #Painting by Henri Biva (c. 1905) #art

like the rain i would not hope to touch you... but as i fall, it's all i dream about

Carol Shields - BOTD

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” W. B. Yeats

"She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind — or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units." ("Tess of the d'Urbervilles") Thomas Hardy was born #otd 1840 🎨 John Everett Millais

'After the rain' This morning's photo is taken in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

"Up to a short time ago I’d have said I was a writer who was just born in Ireland. But I know now, the way I write, the way I see things, my interest in story is very much the result of the race I come from." - Edna O'Brien (Photo - Cecil Beaton)

„Hollywood ist ein Ort, wo sie dir 50.000 Dollar für einen Kuss und 50 Cent für deine Seele zahlen.“ Norma Jeane Baker, besser bekannt als Marilyn Monroe geboren vor 100 Jahren Guten Morgen 

Marilyn reads Jame Joyce during a photoshoot break. Not staged by photog Eve Arnold, who was shooting an iconic sexpot series of MM. Marilyn was a voracious reader, and kept this copy of Ulysses in her car. She read it a little at a time. Her personal library had over 400 books when she died.