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Garth Britzman
Hundreds of empty bottles filled with coloured water to create a canopy… Art can be made from the simplest things.
Lovely and intriguing.
“ Because the fear is already there, and has been for so long. The fear that all the edges and shapes and colors of the real world that have been built up again so painfully with such a real love can dwindle in a moment of doubt, and “suddenly go out” the way the moon would in the Blake poem. ”
Sylvia Plath, “Cambridge Notes” (via virginalmusings)
“ Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ”
Franz Kafka (via embracethesecond)
“ You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ”
Learn To Be Quiet, Franz Kafka (via belongtopoetry)
thismoi: "Anxiety" by Frank O'Hara
I’m having a real day of it.
There was
something I had to do. But what?
There are no alternatives, just
the one something.
I have a drink,
it doesn’t help—-far from it!
I
feel worse. I can’t remember how
I felt, so perhaps I feel better.
No. Just a little darker.
If I could
Years ago, when I was rotten with virtue,
I believed loveliness
was just a face, a flower,no underside to it, no dark complication.
—Stephen Dunn, opening lines to “Loveliness” from Between Angels (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989)
