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“Keats would leave blank places in his drafts to hold on to his passion, spaces for the right words to come. We use them sideways. The way we automatically add bits of shape to hold on to the dissolving dreams. So many of the words are for meanwhile. We say, “I love you” while we search for language that can be heard. Which allows us to talk about how the aspens over there tremble in the smallest shower, while the tree over by the window here gathers the raindrops and lets them go in bunches. The way my heart carols sometimes, and other times yearns. Sometimes is quiet and other times is powerfully quiet.”

— Jack Gilbert, from “The Butternut Tree at Fort Juniper,” Refusing Heaven (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

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penda plans ‘yin & yang house’ for a family that wants to live off-grid

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06.81 storyteller (details) Pencil and charcoal on paper, 5" x 8.25", 2018

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im going to the forest does anybody want anything? 

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The Glass Ocean [x]

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Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918) - Konsumanstalt: Magazin Mit Zivilarbeiter In Wien, Schottenfeldgasse (Supply Depot: Storeroom With Civilian Worker In Vienna, Schottenfeldgasse), black crayon on paper, 45.30 x 29.70 cm (1917)

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If I can stop one heart from breaking - Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is considered one of the greatest American poets.  

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“I think all good painting looks as though the painting has escaped from the thicket of prepared positions and has entered some sort of freedom where it exists on its own, and by its own laws, and inexplicably has got free of all possible explanations. Possibly the explainers will catch up with it again, but never completely.”

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Frank Aurebach (via jemjuniper)

Not just painting….I think this is true of any work of art… visual, musical, literary…..”

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“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy. You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can’t write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that’s really not you. It’s not ingrained. It’s not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like. If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it’s the only way.”

— Julien Smith, The Flinch (via wnq-anonymous)

This might be one of the best things I’ve ever read

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rihanna + trying on zac posen dresses (✿ ♥‿♥)

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I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)

this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.

(via quantumcorean)

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Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.

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Stratford Butterfly Farm - The Orange and Teal look

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Санкт-Петербург Saint Petersburg

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Church St Paul (1964-66) in Bocholt, Germany, by Gottfried Böhm