art inspires and to inspire is no small thing... it's quite literally to take a breath to help another breathe

in another time in another place we were made without the capacity to hate

Kiss Andrea

surely you've noticed, how delicate the wing, how its holy architecture was formed and refined by a yearning for the sky... just as the shape of the hand was formed by love

Berenice Abbott The Wing, 1946

Let us share eternity in order to make it transitory. ~Maurice Blanchot Jamila Clarke

This lilac unleaves. It falls from itself and hides its ancient shadow. I will die of such things. ~Alejandra Pizarnik

📸 Katarzyna Załużna

ㅤ Translucent Hand Fan — Dominique Fung, 2024, oil on Linen ㅤ

we have a deal, me and words... i never remember anything i write i forget them gently and they heal me [it's better this way] to embrace, then pass in the street like strangers.

bowl of clouds 一雲碗

📸 Katarzyna Załużna

like love a true offering is always an accident... a kindness arranged not by ego but by grace

Forever the girl who kept the flowers in between the pages. - Summerghost

I love you true, as salt loves sea, as flame loves blue

“See you soon my strange joy, my tender night.” Vladimir Nabokov

Alison Johnson - The Gathering. Oil on Canvas.

“the history of melancholia includes all of us.” ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

Laura Makabresku

Kiyoshi Saito Autumn in Saga, Kyoto, 1967

Lover's Light (2018) by Sean William Randall. Acrylic on canvas.

We are only made of a single piece by the chance of a voice which calls us by loving us ~Christian Bobin Agnieszka Kielak

all of me could fit inside of you... the way a bird holds the entire sky, then lets the fox swallow her heart for a song

Kelly Louise Judd The Robins and the Fox

Psychic impressions, often felt as feelings, are more fundamental than words 🎨Anna Madia

they fit together so imperfectly

Pablo Picasso

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#Love #Receptivity #Heart #Mind At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window. - Rumi

Georgia O'Keeffe, Black Abstraction (1927)

she: [gazing at the night sky🌙] my dear, this could be us now and always but you refuse to leave your body

Book Cover of the Day:

Illuminated Flower ~ Odilon Redon

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ㅤ Dreaming of the Blue Tiger — Jester Pepita ㅤ

ㅤ By the Sea: Hanging Gardens Series — Robert Zakanitch, 2011-12, gouache and colored pencil on paper ㅤ

ㅤ I notice now how hard it is to say anything without saying everything. Words have shadowy roots tangled around the roots of other words. Pull up one and you pull up twenty more. — Andrew Miller, The Slowworm’s Song: A Novel ㅤ

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Eastern Bluebird Tranquility...

But 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, from Auden’s libretto for the operetta ‘Paul Bunyan’ (1941). #Photography

And if someone should ask me what the soul is, I’ll answer that it’s me. ~Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa)

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La poésie est un autre monde… Il faut s’enfermer avec elle et la laisser parler la voix divine. ~Federico Garcia Lorca René Magritte La double vue (1957)

Josef Svoboda

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