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Scott Prior (American, born 1949)

Autumn Window, 2022

oil on panel

30 x 26 inches

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Sorry guys this doesn't say 'O tired soul, be patient'. It just says 'be patient'.

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"Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted."

Bukowski

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..like a summer touch ☀️

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All they were–all they had ever been–was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the others was the sun .

Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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"Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red."

– Kait Rokowski

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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please , do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

– Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

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Ada Limón, “It’s the Season I Often Mistake,” in The Hurting Kind [ID in alt text]

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intangible - madisen kuhn

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stuck between the oppressor and the coloniser.

#Wordsthatcameoutofmybrainmouth.

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There is no word in Arabic for "perfect"

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Where you live is so arbitrary when all the front doors are unlocked

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Chicama, occurs in a single point on the Peruvian coast, and it is the only wave in the world that is protected by law. Nothing can be built within a radius of two kilometers from that place, so nothing can affect its natural formation.

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Andrew Wyeth (American, July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) @daily_andrewwyeth

Christina Olson, 1947

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LIFE IS WRETCHED AND GLORIOUS

“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected.

“But if that’s all that’s happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction.

“On the other hand, wretchedness – life’s painful aspect – softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person. When you are feeling a lot of grief, you can look right into somebody’s eyes because you feel you haven’t got anything to lose–you’re just there.

“The wretchedness humbles us and softens us, but if we were only wretched, we would all just go down the tubes. We’d be so depressed, discouraged, and hopeless that we wouldn’t have enough energy to eat an apple.

“Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.”

- Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living